From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show difference when recovering file
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:55:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzk1d7jfs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877goi0wcz.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:12 +0100")
> 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.
So the diff may show lots of spurious changes.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-16 21:55 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 [this message]
2012-12-17 10:53 ` Ivan Kanis
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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