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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Anyone ever write a "slave pointer" for X?
Message-ID: <760005@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 90 20:35:38 GMT
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Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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In comp.sources.wanted, daniel@island.uu.net (Daniel Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car") writes:


> 	At the moment, I'm editing one source file while looking at another
> (which has the exact same flow, just small differences on some lines).
> The windows are side by side:

     Use GNU Emacs.  To read in the files from the HP and Sun, you can
either use NFS or ange-ftp mode (which *TRANSPARENTLY* uses ftp to edit
files on other machines -- i.e., all the nastyness of interacting with
ftp is totally hidden from you).  You can then bring up two editing
window side-by-side and use M-x compare-windows to see the differences.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	UUCP: {hplabs!, hpcea!, hpfcla!} hpnmd!darrylo
	Internet: darrylo%hpnmd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com

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