From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature request: improve file recovery Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ipcxmz5j.fsf@kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344249515 21983 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2012 10:38:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs devel To: Ivan Kanis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 06 12:38:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SyKhj-0001Yc-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:38:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyKhi-0003Vd-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyKhf-0003VV-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyKhe-0004VW-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:49447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyKhe-0004VR-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09Ld/QI/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="195033909" Original-Received: from 75-119-244-8.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.244.8]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Aug 2012 06:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2FACF59355; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 06:38:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ipcxmz5j.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:06:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152212 Archived-At: > 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