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log-view-diff regression

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 35624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35624: log-view-diff regression
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:48:55 +0300

On 16.06.2019 23:13, Juri Linkov wrote:

>> Speaking about this approach... What happens when the whole log buffer is
>> shorter than the window it's displayed in?
> 
> It was difficult for me to test this case because I rely heavily on ediff
> for development, but ediff has been broken for a week in master.
> It makes sense to revert changes that break some function completely
> because currently ediff is unusable giving this error:

That's unfortunate, but I never use it. Maybe file a bug?

> But I tried to do ediff's work manually, and can confirm now that
> when the whole log buffer is shorter than the window then the patch
> from bug#35860 still works correctly hiding the first line initially.

Great news.

I wonder if it would still trip up people who use C-v/M-v sometimes. But 
a defcustom would solve that, anyway.

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