From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MH Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:31:05 GMT Organization: seitung Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <86zntkgljj.fsf@seitung.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034408372 21226 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2002 07:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 180Gry-0005Vp-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:39:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 180Gop-0004JJ-00; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:36:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!news01.chello.se!newsrouter.chello.at!news.chello.at.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help X-Gpg-Key: http://www.seitung.net/key X-Gpg: 1024D/0B56B518 F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 X-Home-Page: www.seitung.net X-Face: '3]Qi[5GBf!1=kQ|/rY!:KTY-%5XGIXYvRgKs(1(4N13-?67cl@pj}.MGk`7z?;3FMY_SGw&%}fbSQkB|*E(>`FqK@UM^L=MGX!*j8$VDS?QP]T#i)'YB9P<.$kR:;H0Fn*O-x@Qw~Za$b$r:g0G^=qq7GcfQW$p7$n1L&3RM8{=#Fs8$$T4W?Jr6?DN[EEspL`$h#n7kAyK{96K%^U_F{<_>.7x=92gB*i$| User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 42 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mGMZ47whTmt9oc6LoH1VNftOPTM= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.178.17.97 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.chello.at Original-X-Trace: news.chello.at 1034407865 62.178.17.97 (Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:31:05 MEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:31:05 MEST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:75240 gnu.emacs.help:105963 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2510 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2510 On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Chris wrote: > Well, this command reverts the current buffer back to the state when > it was last checked out. Which can be handy, but is not what I am > looking for. Let me take another stab at explaining. I have a > document that has gone through these changes (numbers are version > numbers): > > 1.5 > Bob went to school > > 1.6 > Mary went home > > 1.7 > John went to the market > > 1.8 > Chris discovers emacs (and then fire) > > > I open the document (1.8) and discover that I need to go back to > version 1.6. How best to do this? I can open 1.6 up using the > show-other-version command, but then I have to select everything in > the old display document and paste it "over" the new document. It > just seemed to me there must be a better way of going back more than > one revision. > > Maybe I am just missing something really stupid... or maybe this is > just not needed very often. But the ability to revert back more than > one version seems very useful to me. - vc-diff vc-merge ... ediff-revision see "Version Control" in the emacs info entry and ediff, of course --