Monday, April 9, 2012

Re: Swap file already exists

On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:25 PM, AK wrote:

> I just want to comment that I find the 'swap file already exists' thingy to be very un-userfriendly. I think it would be immensely more useful if it first showed a text-only diff of the file and swap file, and then only gave the choices.

That would be much more helpful to a novice like me.

> There are two issues here:
>
> 1. When the choices are given, how in the world am I supposed to know
> if the file is newer, or if the swap is newer, or if they're exactly
> the same?

Precisely my puzzlement.

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