Re: Tracking changes

[Benjamin Rutt]

Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I wondered if there was a mode in emacs which allowed the tracking of
> changes, i.e. consider the following text:
>
>    "Bob has a red car"
>
> Now, it turns out that Bob has bought a new car, which is blue, and
> the text must be updated accordingly. What I would like was some mode
> which retained (a marked up/highlighted version of) the old text, "red"
> in this case, and also highlighted/marked up the new version to
> indicate that it was new:

See M-x highlight-changes-mode, which will only work until you kill
the buffer.

Otherwise, if you want across-editing-sessions change tracking, you
could turn on numeric incremental backups and then use diff, but that
doesn't meet your "all in one file" requirement.
-- 
Benjamin