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From: Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair_tocancipa@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version
Date: 12 Oct 2002 11:51:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7kof0j8.fsf@mandala.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns92A4B44CB9660chrislak@216.168.3.40

Chris  writes:

   > 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. 

   > 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.

Why do  you need  to copy/paste  the old display  document in  the new
document? 

You  can just  do  a C-x  C-w to  save  the checked  out version  (say
document.txt.~1.6~) with the name of the document (i.e., document.txt).

Regards,

-- 
--Jhair

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-12  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-11  8:03 RCS revert to previous version Chris
2002-10-11 11:00 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-10-11 16:42   ` Chris
2002-10-11 17:54     ` Jhair Tocancipa Triana
2002-10-12  1:44       ` Chris
2002-10-12  7:31         ` MH
2002-10-12  9:51         ` Jhair Tocancipa Triana [this message]
2002-10-13  2:41           ` Chris
2002-10-12 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-13  2:37   ` Chris
2002-10-13 14:08     ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-14  7:07       ` Chris
2002-10-14 10:48     ` Lee Sau Dan

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