From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I find changes before saving a file? Date: 12 Feb 2003 15:14:12 +0100 Organization: FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <68d3c32.0302120406.7b747908@posting.google.com> <84n0l18wmh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045059299 32535 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 14:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ixf8-0008Sb-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:14:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ixfg-0007CJ-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:15:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!teaser.fr!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.uni-erlangen.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de Original-X-Trace: rznews2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de 1045059253 16895 131.188.164.207 (12 Feb 2003 14:14:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@uni-erlangen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Feb 2003 14:14:13 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110081 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6585 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6585 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > If I have edited a file and want to see what changes I have made, how > > can I do that? > > You could compare the file with its backup. But that only works > after saving, of course. You could temporarily rename the modified buffer, load the file once more into emacs and start an ediff session.