RE: [ jEdit-users ] Backup vs. autosave (was: Re: Backing upfiles...)

[Oliver R. <ol...@ru...>]

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> From: jed...@li... 
> [mailto:jed...@li...] On Behalf Of 
> Slava Pestov
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 7:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Backup vs. autosave (was: Re: 
> Backing upfiles...)
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 12:30, Wendy S wrote:
> > I do have it set to backup on every save and to number them.  The
> > problem is looking back through all of them and figuring out which 
> > one actually _works_. :)  I obviously need to go learn about CVS or 
> > something and stop trying to use backups for version control.
> 
> You might want to use the JDiff plugin and write a set of 
> macros for diff'ing the current file with a specific numbered backup.

This macro might be helpful for that purpose.  It displays all backups
for the current buffer, allowing you to pick two to view using JDiff.

http://newtonsplace.net/jedit/Compare_Buffer_Backups.bsh

It's also on community.jedit.org (but I could find it more quickly
here).

-Ollie