Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? 286
passionfingers writes "My business users regularly have to tweak large (>32MB text) data files manually. Overlords charged with verifying the aforementioned changes have requested that the little people be provided with a new file editor that will track changes made to a file (as a word processor does). I have scouted around online for such an animal, but to no avail — even commercial offerings like UltraEdit32 don't offer such a feature. Likewise on the OSS side of the fence, where I expected a Notepad++ plugin or the like, it appears that the requirements to a) open a file containing a large volume of text data and b) track changes to the data, are mutually exclusive. Does anyone in the Slashdot community already have such a beast in their menagerie? Perhaps there is there a commercial offering I've missed, or could someone possibly point me to their favorite (stable) OSS project that might measure up?"
diff (Score:5, Funny)
I just wrote one for you, and it is even using your favorite editor:
cp $1 $1.bak
`$EDITOR $1`
diff $1.bak $1
Re:Version control (Score:5, Funny)
You must switch to version control, urgently! [thedailywtf.com]
Re:change the process (Score:5, Funny)
come to think of it, it sounds like you're asking us how to best manage spam hit lists.
Re:vi/emacs/eclipse/whatever + svn? (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, there's no way I'd switch from vi, even if it meant better integrated version control. Of course, I'm sure that Emacs has an SVN server built in ;)
Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score:4, Funny)
> cpmsoders
I think you need to move your keyboard about this much (___) to the left. The scary thing is it made perfect sense!
Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score:3, Funny)
Oops! That's quite imcjaracjterostoc of me... my apologies.
Re:That's not fair (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's not fair (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's not fair (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:That's not fair (Score:5, Funny)
Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:That's not fair (Score:4, Funny)
Neither did the URL for the Italian branch of a multinational energy company: "PowerGen Italia"...
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Re:rent a geek (Score:3, Funny)
Revision history can't be hidden within a plain text file?