GNU bug report logs - #5050
23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose <at> gmx.de>

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:20:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5050: 23.1;   efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages
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
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