vsdiff & vslick.sta access denied

[kmk]

I keep running into a pair of dlgs that complain about vslick.sta is locked, access denied when i have vs open and launch vsdiff separately.  I'm encountering this multiples times a day under linux, slickedit 2018.  My primary use case that creates this issue is when i use git difftool, when i have vsdiff set as my difftool.  Since i set git up this way since i upgraded to vse2018, i don't know if it happened in earlier versions.

Is there any workaround for this?

[Dan]

You could use the -sc option on vsdiff and have a separate configuration for when you are just running vsdiff.

[kmk]

Thanks, i'll try that.

[kmk]

I naively thought just using -sc /tmp would be ok.  It did eliminate the lock issue with vslick.sta, BUT my customizations (theme/fonts/etc) were not present.  In retrospect, this is obvious.

I thought i'd make a dir just to point vsdiff to when i use git difftool.  I just don't know what files i should copy there in order to maintain my customizations.  Any thoughts on this?

Considering the two copies may drift over time -- since only one would be updated via vs's menus -- i'd like to reiterate my request for a way for vsdiff (and likely vsmerge) to avoid the lock on vslick.sta

Thanks again for your assistance!

[Dan]

Set up the directory and run vsdiff once, so everything is there.  Then copy user.cfg.xml from your "main" config.  That should get most of what you need.

[kmk]

That worked, many thanks again!