From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I find changes before saving a file? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:19:18 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84n0l18wmh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <68d3c32.0302120406.7b747908@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045055924 16710 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 13:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:18:44 +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 18iwmf-0004LI-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:18:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iwoF-0006Zi-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:20:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045055990 45456044 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qB4nCiw7IN2bcwDRLDUTRj4WfIo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110080 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6584 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6584 deleteallspam@yahoo.com (PL) writes: > If I have edited a file and want to see what changes I have made, how > can I do that? You could compare the file with its backup. But that only works after saving, of course. (Why do you want to do it before saving?) -- A turnip curses Elvis