Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers

From

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>

Date

Sep 20, 2006, 18:22 UTC

Message-ID

<20060920182203.GS8259@pasky.or.cz>

In-Reply-To

<200609201928.46024.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

> Typing those numbers is really insane, so the idea never occurred to me. Most 
> environments have simple methods to copy and paste strings using a clipboard,
> even in a console. So typically you can left-doubleclick on a string and paste 
> with the middle button in *nix like systems (right button in cygwin/windows 
> command line).

  ...which is certainly appealing for the Plan9 fans, but I'm not so
excited from having to grab my mouse all the time. :-) That said, typing
just the few leading digits is not really that painful.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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