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From: robin@gradient.gradient.com (Dr R.P. Alston)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: diff'ing with GNU emacs [summary]
Keywords: diff GNU emacs
Message-ID: <284@gradient.gradient.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:15:20 GMT
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Organization: Gradient Technologies Inc., Hudson MA
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Thankyou everyone for the response on my request. I ended up with a
number of solutions:

1)	Compare-windows (seems to be part of distribution),
	unfortunately not really what I wanted, this needs a fair
	amount of manual keying to perform the updates I am doing.

2)	emerge. Written by Dale R Worley (drw@math.mit.edu). This is
	the package I ended up using. It allows you to work on two
	files or buffers and with very few keystrokes update a 'final'
	image with the correct diffs. Generates a very nice 3 window
	screen showing you the 2 files and the final version.
	This is apparently available thru ftp (although the provider
	of this snippet indicated it may be an older version):

	tut.cis.ohio-state.edu pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/as-is:\
		13627 Jun 21  1990 emerge.el.Z

3)	A package from richard stallman which allows you to do diffs
	more than compare-windows does. Unfortunately the version of
	emacs I have appears to be missing some of the functions used
	so I could not use it (sorry richard).

And then significant a number of other peoples individual packages
that do their own things using diff. Thankyou all for your replies.
I'm afraid I just didn't have the time to use/test them all, but after
receiving a number of people all recommending 2) I went that route.

robin