GNU bug report logs - #1183
23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu, handa <at> m17n.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
        1183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,
        kifer <at> cs.stonybrook.edu
Subject: Re: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:17:58 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu,  handa <at> m17n.org,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  1183 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,  kifer <at> cs.stonybrook.edu
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:17:06 -0400
> 
> >> Back then Stefan suggested emacs-mule instead of no-conversion, but for some
> >> reason this was not done--don't remember why.
> 
> > No special reason.
> 
> Actually, after looking at it a little bit, there are some reasons: the
> encoding is currently set in ediff-make-temp-file which is used in many
> different circumstances, some of which should use emacs-internal, but
> maybe not all.

We have ediff-job-name to distinguish between the different
use-cases.  Ediff already does that in several places, e.g., to pass
the "--binary" option to Diff.

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