[OS X Emacs] Emacs for revisions/Track Changes?

[David Rogoff]

Yes, emacs can easily show differences between different versions of a 
file using many different revision control systems assuming they are 
text files (e.g. html, xml) not binary files (e.g. .doc).   In any 
recent emacs (23.x, 24.x) you can just bring up the file and, from the 
menu-bar, chose Tools->Compare(ediff)->File with Revision.  It works great.

Again, you need to be using some revision control system on your 
computer.  I'd recommend Subversion (svn).  It's much, much simpler than 
git, which will likely cause massive confusion for someone new to this 
stuff.  There's also a great svn mode for emacs (svn-status) that lets 
you easily check in versions of files with comments and see logs of 
changes.  To repeat, the revision tracking is not part of emacs itself - 
it's a separate system installed on your computer / file server.  emacs 
just provides nice (and multiple - of course...) ways to easily interact 
with this.

What OS are you running?  You should read up a bit on the concept and 
use of revision control. Here's a newbie intro I just found: 
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/

  David

> Carsten Bormann <mailto:cabo at tzi.org>
> July 17, 2012 3:42 PM
> I think you will be interested in the concept of revision control systems.
> Emacs has a lot of very well thought out support for those, including 
> a way to call "ediff" mode using "ediff-revisions".
>
> Learn more about revision control systems (version control systems, 
> source code control systems, ...) at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
>
> The most popular current-generation version control system is git.
> Find a great introduction at:
> http://git-scm.com/book
>
> Also still popular is the previous-generation system subversion.
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
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> Peter Salazar <mailto:cycleofsong at gmail.com>
> July 17, 2012 2:06 PM
> Is there a good way to track changes on a document I'm editing using 
> Emacs?
>
> I'm an editor, and people often send me a few paragraphs of text and 
> ask for my input. I line edit the copy and send it back to them, and 
> it's helpful for the person to be able to see exactly what I've 
> changed and where.
>
> Microsoft Word's Track Changes function does this perfectly, providing 
> a clear visual representation of what I've added, what I've deleted, 
> and what I've moved, as well as showing any comments I've added. But I 
> hate Microsoft Word.
>
> Is there an Emacs way to do this? A Markdown way? A web app? Or some 
> HTML tool that will annotate a document and highlight my deletions and 
> insertions?
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