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bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:21:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Suppose we write the temp files with utf-8-emacs-unix encoding--won't
> that bite us when the output from Diff is then read with raw-text (see
> ediff-exec-process)?
Yes, tho not much worse than what we have now (where we write in
utf-8/latin-1/younameit and read it back as raw-text aka binary).
I.e. it's not a new problem.
>> > But first, we should decide whether we want such buffers to compare
>> > equal or not.
>> I believe we do, because it's called ediff-buffers. There's ediff-files
>> for when you want to compare the files.
> Don't you think having direct file comparison yield results that are
> different from comparing buffers that visit those same files will be
> confusing?
Yes. But I don't know of any better alternative. Your suggestion to
emit a warning about the different encoding should hopefully make things
more clear.
Stefan
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, (continued)
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/18
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/18
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/19
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken,
Stefan Monnier <=
bug#1183: marked as done (23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2008/10/19