9.2 Merge Commands
Groups of common lines, with a blank gutter, are copied from the first
file to the output. After each group of differing lines, sdiff
prompts with ‘%’ and pauses, waiting for one of the following
commands. Follow each command with <RET>.
- ‘e’
- Discard both versions.
Invoke a text editor on an empty temporary file,
then copy the resulting file to the output.
- ‘eb’
- Concatenate the two versions, edit the result in a temporary file,
then copy the edited result to the output.
- ‘ed’
- Like ‘eb’, except precede each version with a header that
shows what file and lines the version came from.
- ‘el’
- ‘e1’
- Edit a copy of the left version, then copy the result to the output.
- ‘er’
- ‘e2’
- Edit a copy of the right version, then copy the result to the output.
- ‘l’
- ‘1’
- Copy the left version to the output.
- ‘q’
- Quit.
- ‘r’
- ‘2’
- Copy the right version to the output.
- ‘s’
- Silently copy common lines.
- ‘v’
- Verbosely copy common lines. This is the default.
The text editor invoked is specified by the EDITOR environment
variable if it is set. The default is system-dependent.