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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:55:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 1183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:15:45 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>, <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:45:21 -0700
> 
> > If so, this is expected:
> 
> Well it certainly isn't expected in Emacs 20, 21, or 22, where ediff-buffers
> works perfectly for these two files. Why this change for Emacs 23? What's the
> gain?

Sorry, you are right: Emacs 22 also uses --binary, but doesn't expose
this problem.  So I guess something else is at work here.  I'll look
closer when I have time.

> And how to change the buffers (e.g. line endings) so ediff-buffers will compare
> them correctly?

"C-x RET f unix RET C-x C-s".
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