From: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show difference when recovering file
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:53:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uep9ch3.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzk1d7jfs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:55:31 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> This trivial patch offer to see the difference between the current file
>> and the backup file. This helps making the decision whether one wants to
>> recover the file.
>
>> + (diff file file-name)
>
> There's a problem here: the autosave file is saved using the internal
> coding-system (so it always succeeds, no matter what weird mix of
> characters happens to be currently in the buffer), where the
> non-autosave file will use the encoding which happens to be in use for
> this file.
Is it possible to open the non-autosave file in the internal format just
to run the diff? I guess not.
> So the diff may show lots of spurious changes.
I think it's a borderline case. It's more useful to see what the
difference is between the two files even though on rare occasion the
diff will show garbage
--
Ivan Kanis
http://ivan.kanis.fr
I had an interest in death from an early age. It fascinated me. When I
heard 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,' I thought, 'Did he fall or was
he pushed?'
-- P.D. James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-16 16:56 [PATCH] show difference when recovering file Ivan Kanis
2012-12-16 18:12 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-16 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 10:53 ` Ivan Kanis [this message]
2012-12-17 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 16:04 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-17 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 20:27 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-17 17:03 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-17 23:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-17 17:35 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-17 9:27 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-17 11:16 ` Ivan Kanis
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