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Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking?

Posted by kdawson on from the and-a-pony dept.

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?"

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  1. diff by Anonymous Coward · · 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

  2. Re:Version control by markov_chain · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must switch to version control, urgently!

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  3. Re:change the process by DragonTHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    come to think of it, it sounds like you're asking us how to best manage spam hit lists.

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  4. Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  5. Re:That's not fair by spazdor · · Score: 5, Funny

    their domain name used to be "expertsexchange.com".
    Then one day that address suddenly redirected to "experts-exchange.com" You could almost feel the webmasters smacking themselves in the forehead.

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  6. Re:That's not fair by wilder_card · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a list of "worst URLS" around somewhere that's got expertsexchange.com on it. Other memorable entries included an artist's site, speedofart.com, and the Mole Station Nursery, a wildlife non-profit, at molestationnursery.com.

  7. Re:That's not fair by spazdor · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://burntherapist.com/

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  8. Re:That's not fair by A440Hz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget-- the company Pen Island decided to use their name (without dashes) as their URL. Capitalization being rare in URLs, it didn't work so well.

  9. Re:That's not fair by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Neither did the URL for the Italian branch of a multinational energy company: "PowerGen Italia"...