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[24.191.68.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 30sm6684034qgt.4.2014.02.13.23.53.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:53:32 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <1913911dabee4a1e979c4914631ac676@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85545 Archived-At: Strange. When I run it with .emacs, then M-x describe-variable ediff-highlight-all-diffs returns Documentation: If nil, only the selected differences are highlighted. Otherwise, all difference regions are highlighted, but the selected region is shown in brighter colors. But if it is started with emacs -q then the documentation string is not shown. -- --- michael On 02/13/2014 03:29 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:31:58 -0800 (PST) >> From: Drew Adams >> >> emacs -Q >> M-x load-library ediff >> C-h v ediff-highlight-all-diffs >> >> No doc shown, just an empty "Documentation:". > That's because of the ediff-defvar-local macro: > > (defcustom ediff-highlight-all-diffs t > "If nil, only the selected differences are highlighted. > Otherwise, all difference regions are highlighted, but the selected region is > shown in brighter colors." > :type 'boolean > :group 'ediff-highlighting) > (ediff-defvar-local ediff-highlight-all-diffs t "") > > It is invoked (here and elsewhere) with an empty string as the doc, so > that's what you get. > > Michael, what's the purpose here?