From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: feature request: improve file recovery
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5ls2tnf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipcxmz5j.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:06:00 +0200")
> I get from time to time a prompt saying I should recover a file. When I
> do it, I find it difficult to make a decision. It would be nice
> to improve the recover-file function to pop up a window that shows
> difference between the current file and its recovery.
Usually I do recover-this-file and then diff-buffer-with-file.
> Is there interest for this feature? I might have the time to write the
> feature if it will be integrated in emacs.
Yes it would be nice to get that diff before doing the recovery.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-06 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 10:06 feature request: improve file recovery Ivan Kanis
2012-08-05 13:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-06 18:01 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-07 11:48 ` Michael Sperber
2012-08-07 17:09 ` Bastien
2012-08-07 18:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-07 19:29 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-08 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-06 10:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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