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Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking?
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?"
I just wrote one for you, and it is even using your favorite editor:
cp $1 $1.bak
`$EDITOR $1`
diff $1.bak $1
You must switch to version control, urgently!
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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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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.
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.