Subject: bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages

From: Kevin Rodgers <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:01:16 -0700

Sebastian Rose wrote:
> What I'd prefer even more, would be `ediff' to load those two files two
> different buffers, put those buffers in hexl-mode and diff them.

That's what ediff-buffers is for.

> Before `ediff' does this, it should ask (maybe ask only, if the two
> files or one of them exceeds a certain size).

Maybe ediff should have a option whether ediff-files visits the files
and runs ediff-buffers, or retains its original behavior.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA