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27.0.50; ediff-files does not work after lexical-binding was enabled for ediff

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Markus Weber <parlando <at> intergga.ch>
Subject: bug#36281: closed (Re: bug#36157: 27.0.50; ediff-files does not
 work after lexical-binding was enabled for ediff)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:06:04 +0000

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Your bug report

#36157: 27.0.50; ediff-directories() ends up with a wrong-type-argument lisp error

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 36157-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36157: 27.0.50;
 ediff-files does not work after lexical-binding was enabled for ediff
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:05:25 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If there are no ideas how to fix this in a week or so, I suggest to
> revert the changeset while we consider the possible solutions,

Done in ef23c8b.

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From: Markus Weber <parlando <at> intergga.ch>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50;
 ediff-directories() ends up with a wrong-type-argument lisp error
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:58:36 +0200

Hi,

probably with commit 963d4e2, ediff.el seems to be mixed up.

Reproducible: always, with current builds on Debian and mingw-w64.

Stack:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>  string-match("^/tmp_mnt/" nil)
>  abbreviate-file-name(nil)
>  ediff-abbreviate-file-name(nil)
>  ediff-draw-dir-diffs(((#<buffer *Ediff Session Group Panel<2>*>)))
>  ...

Many thanks!

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