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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



      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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