GNU bug report logs - #52242
29.0.50; Feature Request: Offer to run`diff-buffer-with-file' in `recover-this-file' prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Visuwesh <visuwesh <at> tutanota.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 12:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 53280, 58253

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53280: closed (29.0.50; M-x recover-this-file's file list not
 informative)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:38:02 +0000
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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; M-x recover-this-file's file list not informative
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:01:21 +0300
When doing M-x recover-this-file, I am presented with list of files
similarly like in Dired listing. If file is 465k and difference small
with files, then I just see 2 files, one being "#file#" and other
"file". That list presented as a choice for decision if to recover the
file or not is not sufficiently informative. It gives me no information
on why should I recover the file.

Something more informative would be if Emacs would tell me which file is
larger.

Even better would be if I could be represented an option to quickly see
the difference between the files.


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.4, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2022-01-09 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: 3984ea855361f8c82cdeffbc616dbb459c257dae
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12013000
System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media rmc puny
dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg
rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date seq gv
subr-x byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs
cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils
iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd
tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace
newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar
rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic
cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript
charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray
cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files
window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads
dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process
emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 46060 9863)
 (symbols 48 6198 3)
 (strings 32 17417 1648)
 (string-bytes 1 539956)
 (vectors 16 11662)
 (vector-slots 8 161706 12752)
 (floats 8 22 52)
 (intervals 56 236 0)
 (buffers 992 11))

-- 
Thanks,
Jean Louis

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[Message part 3 (message/rfc822, inline)]
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 52242-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52242: 29.0.50; Feature Request: Offer to
 run`diff-buffer-with-file' in `recover-this-file' prompt
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:36:33 +0200
> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 52242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:44:50 +0530
> 
> [ஞாயிறு டிசம்பர் 10, 2023] Visuwesh wrote:
> 
> Just noticed that I had an unrelated filling change sneak in, the
> attached patch omits that.  Sorry for the noise.

Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.


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