9. Interactive Merging with sdiff

With sdiff, you can merge two files interactively based on a side-by-side ‘-y’ format comparison (see section Showing Differences Side by Side). Use ‘-o file’ or ‘--output=file’ to specify where to put the merged text. See section Invoking sdiff, for more details on the options to sdiff.

Another way to merge files interactively is to use the Emacs Lisp package emerge. See (emacs)emerge section `emerge' in The GNU Emacs Manual, for more information.