On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 10:31:03 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > nano, or mc with it's in-built editor. > > They don't have a diffing/merging mode, do they? no; i thought for somebody not used to managing arch, it would be better to do things manually, or not at all. often you can leave .pacnew files alone w/o anything bad happening. otherwise, before merging, it's better to read thru' the files and understand what's happening, was my idea. -- phani.