From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:10:11 -0700 Message-ID: <87r6yq5gn0.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157480691 27109 80.91.229.2 (5 Sep 2006 18:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 05 20:24:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfat-00046h-RY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:24:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfat-0008Un-BR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfaW-0008Qh-Fc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfaU-0008PL-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfaT-0008PG-W0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GKflH-00024g-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GKfZz-0003rm-5k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:23:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iBq8+Y6cMq2pY3AgumY3SQIsUCE= 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:37167 Archived-At: I'm not sure this is quite what you're looking for, but: the NEWS for CVS Emacs says *** C-x s (save-some-buffers) now offers an option `d' to diff a buffer against its file, so you can see what changes you would be saving. -- ... there are any number of partisan Democrats lurking in engineering departments and liberal moles in software-writing offices. -- Molly Ivins