<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Kurt Hindenburg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kurt.hindenburg@gmail.com" target="_blank">kurt.hindenburg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, I find reinplace easier and less work for new releases. Are
there reasons to use one over the other?</blockquote></div><br>reinplace is appropriate for replacing self-contained "tokens" and such. When the context of an edit is important, reinplace handles context very poorly, while patch is designed to handle it and fail if the context can't be rationalized (e.g. by detecting that something moved but is otherwise the same).<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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