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From: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
To: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
Cc: emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: diff before recovering file
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:56:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehnn3lm2.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98268CB673@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> (Doug Lewan's message of "Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:45:39 +0000")

Ivan wrote:

>> Has anyone written a function to see the difference between the file
>> viewed in the buffer and what would be recovered?

Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> wrote:

> You can always refuse the recovery initially offered and use diff (M-x
> diff) or ediff (M-x ediff). After that you can run M-x
> recover-this-file anytime.

My emacs doesn't prompt for recovery. It could be a setting on my end. I
don't think M-x diff checks automatically with the backed up file. I'll
try next time I see the message.

Take care,
-- 
Ivan Kanis
http://ivan.kanis.fr

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
    -- Horace



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-02 14:34 diff before recovering file Ivan Kanis
2012-08-02 15:45 ` Doug Lewan
2012-08-03 17:56   ` Ivan Kanis [this message]
2012-08-03  9:28 ` Andreas Röhler

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