From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
Subject: Re: ediff between buffer and corresponding (changed) file
Date: 8 Dec 2006 07:04:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165590277.739247.260950@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ttbmjF1546mpU1@mid.individual.net>
Sascha Wilde wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> the (not too uncommon) situation is this:
>
> - I'm editing a file
> - the file is changed by someone (or something) else on disk
> - I want to safe my changes and emacs asks if I want to overwrite the
> changes on disk
>
> now I would like to make a diff and merge between my version and the
> version on disk, but I can't find a straight forward way top do this,
> without writing a temporary file.
>
> Am I missing something?
It is a recent addition, which can be added by inserting some elisp.
See this thread:-
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_frm/thread/ee86853ef6243e5f/3b7bdaedebb77c2e?lnk=st&q=ediff+buffer+underlying+file+emacs&rnum=1#3b7bdaedebb77c2e
Message-ID: <m2odtujmix.fsf@janus.isnogud.escape.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-08 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 14:38 ediff between buffer and corresponding (changed) file Sascha Wilde
2006-12-08 15:04 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2006-12-08 16:19 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-08 16:33 ` Robert Thorpe
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