From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jhair Tocancipa Triana Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version Date: 12 Oct 2002 11:51:07 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034416617 5642 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2002 09:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:56:57 +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 180J0y-0001Ss-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:56:56 +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 180J0T-0002WC-00; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:56:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-peer-europe.sprintlink.net!news.stupi.se!news01.chello.se!newsrouter.chello.at!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1034416269 06 20089 S-q3b55ESLAQqw 021012 09:51:09 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520083754205-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:75241 gnu.emacs.help:105968 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:2515 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2515 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 Public Key fingerprint = 81FF 3ADF BF6B CECB C593 4018 27AE D7D2 BAA6 00D0