From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to create the patch from current file Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:46:06 +0200 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7cvdlup9cx.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247654560 16054 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2009 10:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:42:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 12:42:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MR1wW-00024U-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MR1wW-0005pv-0Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:42:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp10-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7ae6X9BIoSzrStWEcBA1aG7xOZU= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jul 2009 11:46:07 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1247651167 news-2.free.fr 309 88.170.236.224:56506 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170903 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66101 Archived-At: Michal writes: > Hallo group readers. > > Imagine the following situation: > I just changed some part of file, but did not save it. > Now I want to create a patch comparing to the original file. > Do You know any emacs command that would do it for me? C-x C-w newfile RET M-x diff RET newfile RET oldfile RET Eventually: M-x rename-file RET newfile RET oldfile RET to override the oldfile by the newfile. > Optionally I can imagine that this might even be possible after I saved > a file. Then file~ could be used as a version before changes? Don't count on it. The time when a backup file is created is not always what you'd want it to be. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__