From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Pement Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: ediff merge fails on Win2K Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:25:02 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <0HCB009D2CEHPX@email2.moody.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048610105 21641 80.91.224.249 (25 Mar 2003 16:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 17:35:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xrKz-0005NZ-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:31:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xrKM-0001kS-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xrHd-0000TI-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xrHN-000896-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.moody.edu ([66.185.253.38] helo=mbigate.moody.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xrHF-0007ni-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.moody.edu by mbigate.moody.edu via smtpd (for mail.gnu.org [199.232.76.166]) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:27:53 -0600 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.email2.moody.edu by email2.moody.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.05 (built Nov 6 2002)) id <0HCB00A01BY82G@email2.moody.edu> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:27:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from SW218-ET04 (sw218-et04.moody.edu [66.185.249.144]) by email2.moody.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.05 (built Nov 6 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HCB009D1CEHPX@email2.moody.edu> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:27:53 -0600 (CST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4650 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation [...] Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2002-03-19 on buffy configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: 1) From the menubar, select "Tools | Merge | Files" 2) Select file1.txt (6 short lines), file2.txt (likewise) 3) The Emacs editing window splits into 3 windows, with file1 on the left, file2 on the right, and a merge file on the bottom. The highlighted differences are shown, and a new Ediff window opens, and becomes the currently active window. Everything looks as expected. 4) Press 'n' to go to the next difference region. Immediately causes an error (wrapped for legibility): Could not run c:\bin\diff3.exe \ c:/DOCUME~1/epement/LOCALS~1/Temp/fineDiffA1540VcN \ c:/DOCUME~1/epement/LOCALS~1/Temp/fineDiffB1540imT \ c:/DOCUME~1/epement/LOCALS~1/Temp/fineDiffB1540imT However, 'diff3.exe' is GNU diff v2.8 and is on the PATH. When I use ediff to Compare two files, I do not get this error. My OS platform is Windows 2000 Pro. Recent input: n Recent messages: Reading file c:/Program Files/metapad/file2.txt ... Mark set Computing differences between file1.txt and file2.txt ... B [3 times] Processing difference regions ... done Merging buffers A & B into C ... Done Refining difference region 1 ... ediff-prepare-error-list: Errors in diff output. Diff output is in # Loading emacsbug...done