Re: rcs graphical gui?

[Robert J. Clark]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:58:40 +0100 Ian Gilmour <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Yes I know about TKCVS - but I thought it only worked only on CVS archives.
> 
> Or can it handle plain RCS ones too?

Whoops, soory about that. I had a bit of a brain lock while reading
this thread and I could have sworn you wanted a CVS gui. My mistake.

- Rob

> 
> -----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." :>