From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:38:05 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <875z1ii7te.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87a6qvat9v.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11972"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Li5ELtKEJ7ovL/nkkArvoK2xKI0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 09:38:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lOcYs-000330-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:38:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43118 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOcYr-0002ds-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOcYL-0002cI-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:47318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOcYF-0007Az-M8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lOcYD-0002Hh-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:38:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128517 Archived-At: On Monday, 22 Mar 2021 at 23:25, Jean Louis wrote: > I am using RCS and to review some previous version I do: `C-x v ~ > VERSION-NUMBER` then I get full file visible in the buffer. I think the OP is using the simple backup file method built-in to Emacs, not a version control system, i.e. that files are backed up using a simple numbering scheme. For the OP: As far as I know the only way to see differences is to manually do a diff on them. But ediff and emerge, for instance, are very good. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid