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

Peter Salazar cycleofsong at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 02:04:09 EDT 2012


Thanks to everyone for the replies. David, to answer your question, I'm
running OSX 10.7.4.

I installed psvn, but when I type svn-status, I keep getting the error
message

svn: warning: '.' is not a working copy

I tried installing dsvn and got the same thing.

I can't seem to find a guide on how to get started with svn anywhere on the
web...


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:27 PM, David Rogoff <cs80 at therogoffs.com> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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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