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Re: Show unsaved changes (as diff)


From: Martin Fischer
Subject: Re: Show unsaved changes (as diff)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:44:58 +0100
User-agent: Emacs Gnus


  >>>>> David Kastrup writes:
  > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:39:59 +0200
  > 
  > Florian Lorenzen writes:
  > 
  >> Hello,
  >> 
  >> I have a very innocent question, I'm sorry that I could not figure out
  >> the answer myself: is there a quick way to ask Emacs to show the
  >> unsaved changes in a file's buffer as a diff? Sometimes, I attempt to
  >> kill a bufer and Emacs asks me if I want do discard the changes. As my
  >> memory is very weak sometimes, I cannot recall what I had changed and
  >> if this was important in any way. So, I'd simply like to see what I'd
  >> throw away. Of course, I can copy the file's buffer's content to a new
  >> buffer, revert the file's buffer and make a diff on these two. But is
  >> there something ready-made for this kind of situation, like M-x
  >> show-unsaved-changes?
  > 
  > M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET
  > 
  > -- 
  > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
  > 

Hi,

by the way, is it possible to use this in some way with the more
"readable" representation of ediff and how could it be done (moderate
lisp knowledge) ?

Thank you

Martin
-- 
parozusa at web dot de


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