From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:49:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: add support for ediff Message-ID: <7vr6nrz9yx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070702030521.GA4798@thunk.org> Theodore Tso writes: > One thing that did cross my mind is that we could put code which > patched ediff.el and emerge.el in /usr/share/git/lisp/... and then > passed called emacs with something like this "emacs -l > $sharedir/lisp/ediff-patches.el ...". But this implies packaging > emacs lisp files with git, and I'm not at ALL sure we want to go > there. ... I hope not. > ... Personally, I still like kdiff3 as my personal favorite > mergetool, and given that emacs starts up pretty fast these days, I've > given up on emacsclient, but I know there are certainly people who use > them. The reason I personally use emacsclient is not about the start-up delay, but with the access to existing buffers, keyboard macros, Gnus buffers, ... IOW the access to the "session" while editing. I suspect people with long running Emacs session use emacsclient for that reason.