RE: rcs graphical gui?

[Ian Gilmour]

Yes I know about TKCVS - but I thought it only worked only on CVS archives.

Or can it handle plain RCS ones too?


cheers,


Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Clark [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:07 PM
To: Ian Gilmour
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: rcs graphical gui?


On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:04:55 +0100 Ian Gilmour <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 
> Thanks, I know about (X)emacs capabilities, I use it all the time myself.
> But I was looking for something more standalone, that possibly
> integrates with tkdiff. Not all our users use (x)emacs, and they might
> find the learning curve less user friendly than driving rcs from the
> command line.
> 
> Any other pointers?

How about TkCVS?

http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerhard Sittig [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:47 PM
> To: Info-Cvs (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: rcs graphical gui?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 17:27 +0100, Ian Gilmour wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone know of a Unix-based graphical front-end to RCS.
> > 
> > We've got some users here that seem to prefer a graphical GUI
> > to a command line driven one. Can't understand it myself!
> > Something like TKCVS but for RCS.
> 
> Emacs?  SCNR.
> 
> But seriously -- emacs AFAIK has support for RCS, SCCS, and CVS
> (and mice, and menus, and colors, and many platforms to run on,
> and development tools, and scripting, and much more -- you can
> even manipulate files with it:).
> 
> Which reminds me of the old saying "Emacs is a nice operating
> system, but UNIX definitely has the better editor." :>