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Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file
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David Hansen |
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Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file |
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Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:13:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 14 Sep 2006 08:19:28 +0200 Urs Thuermann wrote:
> I sometimes get into the following situation: I open a file, make
> some changes, then I want to see the changes before saving the file.
> The best way to do this seems to be to set the region to the whole
> buffer, write the region to some temporary file, and run diff on the
> two files. But I find this very unconvenient.
>
> I'd like to have a function in emacs which can be applied to a buffer,
> say buffer A, that opens a new buffer displaying all the changes
> between the buffer A and the disk file, opened in buffer A.
>
> Searching the emacs documentation I haven't found anything like this.
> Only functions for diff'ing two buffers or two files.
M-x apropos RET diff.*buf RET gives me (GNU Emacs 22) as the
first hit:
diff-buffer-with-file
Command: View the differences between BUFFER and its associated file.
But maybe Emacs/20.7 is a bit old...
David
- diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Urs Thuermann, 2006/09/05
- diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Urs Thuermann, 2006/09/14
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file,
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- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Darren, 2006/09/14
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/14
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Urs Thuermann, 2006/09/17
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/17
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- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Urs Thuermann, 2006/09/18
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, John Sullivan, 2006/09/20
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- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Tim X, 2006/09/21
- Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file, Romain Francoise, 2006/09/21