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29.0.50; Feature Request: Offer to run`diff-buffer-with-file' in `recover-this-file' prompt

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: 52242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52242: 29.0.50;  Feature Request: Offer to run`diff-buffer-with-file' in `recover-this-file' prompt
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:02:28 +0530

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[புதன் டிசம்பர் 06, 2023] Visuwesh wrote:

> [வியாழன் டிசம்பர் 02, 2021] Visuwesh wrote:
>
>> `recover-this-file' quite helpfully shows the time of creation of the
>> auto-save file.  However, this is not always enough to decide whether I
>> should recover from said auto-save file since there's no way of knowing
>> if the changes in auto-save file are desirable [1] so I end up answering
>> yes, then run `diff-buffer-with-file' anyway.  I think having a
>> `diff-buffer-with-file' option like `save-some-buffers' would be a
>> quality-of-life improvement.
>
> Please find attached path that uses read-answer to present the diff.

I didn't notice that recover-file was covered in the Emacs manual, I
have now updated the manual and marked the NEWS entry accordingly in the
attached patch.

[0001-Offer-to-show-diff-against-auto-save-in-recover-file.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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