Re: Offering the differences on exit

[Kim F. Storm]

Mario Lang <address@hidden> writes:

> One feature I miss since I tried out Emacs the first time
> is the ability to see a diff when you are asked if you want to
> save changed you've made.

I agree this would be extremely useful.

However, I would prefer if this was built-in as a default option in
save-some-buffers.

In that case, I don't see a great need for the more general approach
you have taken with the save-some-buffers-action-alist (although it
might have other uses).

The following function may be useful here (it doesn't
use a temp file, but maybe that's not portable diff
behaviour):

(defun diff-buffer-to-visited-file (&optional buffer)
  (interactive "bBuffer: ")
  (setq buffer (get-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer))))
  (let ((file (buffer-file-name buffer)))
    (if file
        (with-current-buffer buffer
          (save-restriction
            (widen)
            (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) 
               (concat "diff -c " file " -"))))
      (message "No file is associated with buffer"))))

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