From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
To: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What has changed in buffer?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:20:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A4DE3E2-0F4A-43F4-981F-1FE1616447D8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j03s2q$om9$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Jul 19, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> I go to quit emacs, or kill a buffer. It has been modified. How can I see what
> the changes are? An ediff for this would be nice.
>
> You know what would be great? If when asking whether to save the buffer, emacs
> would offer to show the diff.
I like your suggestion.
What I do is "undo" which tends to remind me what / where the buffer got changed. Often it was by accident. And if I want to keep the changes, I redo and then save.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-19 12:07 What has changed in buffer? Neal Becker
2011-07-19 12:20 ` Perry Smith [this message]
2011-07-19 12:22 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-19 20:56 ` Tom Davey
2011-07-19 14:15 ` Memnon Anon
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