From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 38575@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38575: 27.0.50; Document that `diff' arguments OLD and NEW can be buffers
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:35:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rt9aiah.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5d0977c-3b52-89a2-f8ea-3fb434ba9eb7@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:15:37 +1300)
> Cc: 38575@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:15:37 +1300
>
> The user might otherwise wonder whether Emacs is actually using the
> external diff program in this case (vs using some internal functions
> to process the buffer text directly to produce a diff).
They have the sources to solve this confusion.
> I'm ok with omitting it if you're not convinced.
I'd prefer to omit that, because we may one day find a way of running
programs with input redirected from a buffer, or something. Not a
strong opinion, though.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 6:46 bug#38575: 27.0.50; Document that `diff' arguments OLD and NEW can be buffers Phil Sainty
2019-12-12 7:44 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-12 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-12 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-12 10:15 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-12 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-14 8:22 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-14 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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