Subject: bug#1183 closed by Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> (RE: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken)

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>From [email-masked] Sun Oct 19 08:33:17 2008
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:32:07 +0200
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
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Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>

Fixed by using the emacs-internal encoding when writing buffers to
temporary files.

>From [email-masked] Thu Oct 16 11:47:20 2008
From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:47:11 -0700

emacs -Q
 
Visit both the bookmark.el file from this installation (see below) and
a copy of bookmark.el from CVS for today, 2008-10-16.
 
The only difference between the two files is in fact this text which
was added to the CVS version near the end of the file, just before
run-hooks:
 
(defun bookmark-unload-function ()
  "Unload the Bookmark library."
  (when bookmark-save-flag (bookmark-save))
  ;; continue standard unloading
  nil)
 
You can see this by using ediff in Emacs 22, 21, or 20 - or by using
diff.
 
However, ediff-buffers shows the entire buffers as a single diff, and
hitting `*' to refine that diff has no effect at all. IOW,
ediff-buffers is now useless for seeing the differences between these
two files.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-10-03 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'