From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:07:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Conflict editing
Message-ID: <20070305150728.GB17844@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703051223420.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hello,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Of course, this script is dumb and has no way to edit files whose 
> > > names contain spaces
> > 
> > Wouldn't using xargs fix that?
> 
> I tried that first, even in the proper form to catch newlines also, with 
> "-z" for ls-files and "-0" for xargs.
> 
> Alas, vi complained to me by saying "Not started from a terminal", and 
> wrecking my terminal settings. For example, echo was set to off, and 
> Ctrl+C no longer worked.
Another problem is, that only GNU xargs has -0, the version on Solaris
(and probably on *BSD) doesn't know it.

Best regards
Uwe

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