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10.2 NetBeans: The Open Source IDE245is running. When you next touch the file from within the IDE, NetBeans willrecognize the fact that the file has been modified and load the new version.If you haven’t yet learned vi, you may find yourself quite comfortable usingthe NetBeans editor. If you dig deeper into NetBeans you can find how tomap certain keystrokes to make it even more editor-like. However, mousingand cut-and-paste may suffice for beginners for quite some time.10.2.4 Integration with CVSNetBeans comes with a built-in CVS client, which means that you don’t needto install any additional features in NetBeans to get it to talk with a CVS server.It has all it needs to check out and commit files from and to a CVS repository.NetBeans can be configured to use external (i.e., outside of NetBeans) CVScommands, but you likely won’t need to do that.What you will need to do, however, is tell NetBeans that the files you areusing are under CVS control. You do this by mounting the filesystem not asjust a regular filesystem, but as a CVS filesystem. In the Explorer window, goto the Filesystem tab if you are not already there. On the Filesystem icon,right-click your mouse, and from the pulldown menu choose Mount, thenVersion Control, then CVS (Figure 10.6). What follows will be a wizard-likeseries of dialogs which you will fill in to describe the type and location of theCVS repository with which you want to work. Those choices and values arespecific to your installation, so we’ll leave that for you to figure out with yournetwork administrator or whoever has set up your repository.Once mounted, the CVS filesystem’s files will look much like any otherfilesystem you have mounted—except that the files will show, via their icon,when they have been modified and need to be committed, and will show theversion number in parentheses after the filename. The other difference is thatthere is now a CVS command on the pulldown menu (Figure 10.7) thatappears when you right-click on one of the filenames (or on its tab in theEdit view).Move your mouse over the CVS command; an additional pulldown menuappears (Figure 10.8). If you’ve used CVS at all, then you’ll recognize the listof commands in the cascaded menu. There are the Commit, Update, Diff,Log, Status, and Checkout commands that you are familiar with. The firstitem, Refresh, is likely unfamiliar, though. Not being a CVS command (it’snot part of the command-line syntax), it is a way for you to tell the IDE to