From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Show unsaved changes (as diff)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:39:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85tzplo37k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wnzk5qh78ve.fsf@g22.physik.fu-berlin.de
Florian Lorenzen <lorenzen@physik.fu-berlin.de> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-23 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-23 14:29 Show unsaved changes (as diff) Florian Lorenzen
2007-09-23 14:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-24 17:44 ` Martin Fischer
2007-09-25 5:54 ` Gordon Beaton
2007-09-25 7:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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