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26.0.50; Hitting 'n' during ediff gives Error

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: phst <at> google.com, 26378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26378: 26.0.50; Hitting 'n' during ediff gives Error
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:53:51 -0400

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] Check that file argument is a string

>                         (mapcar (lambda (file)
> -                                 (file-name-unquote
> -                                  (or (file-local-copy file) file)))
> +                                 (when (stringp file)
> +                                   (file-name-unquote
> +                                    (or (file-local-copy file) file))))
>                                 files)))


We should probably update the comment above `ediff-exec-process' where it says:

    All elements in FILES must be strings.

This seems to be a lie, as they can also be nil.

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