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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:53:59 -0500
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 19/01/2011 10:07, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> Well, that's true 120 is nice too. However, it's already too large for
>> side by side view (as noticed by Pascal) even on a wide graphic screen,
>> and vertical tile is not nice (not enough height, you have to scroll all
>> the time and lose from view what you've just scrolled).
>> 
> I don't think it is a strong argument (speaking for myself):
> 1) I use diff very rarely
> 2) If I do, I use WinMerge (on Windows) or Meld (on Linux), both handle
> long lines nicely (scrolling both lines horizontally in sync).

I prefer Emacs ediff, which (by default) displays the two files above
each other. You can configure it to display them side by side, but I
just like the default better.

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-- Stephe