From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:23:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <00a101c92fbf$998d19b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <00eb01c92fd0$1be49cc0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <002501c93078$21bf8c60$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20081017130533.3c3070bc@kiferserv> <002a01c9307c$3af9fef0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <004901c93087$2c0345e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20081017231731.28a0382f@kiferserv> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224402980 3273 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2008 07:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, kifer@cs.sunysb.edu, handa@m17n.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 09:57:25 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KrTAC-0001uX-Dk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:57:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrT97-0005xA-9b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrT92-0005wt-Vl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrT8z-0005w5-02 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48552 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrT8y-0005w2-Pw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:36434) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrT8y-0004DB-JM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrT8x-0000KO-KT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9J7o02W028986; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:50:00 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m9J7U45x024326; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:30:04 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:30:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1183 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1183-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1183.122440103122951 (code B ref 1183); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:30:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1183) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 19 Oct 2008 07:23:51 +0000 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il (mtaout3.012.net.il [84.95.2.7]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9J7Nl8l022942 for <1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:23:49 -0700 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.98.197]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K8Z007RA5XVNTV0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:25:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:56:12 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21672 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu, handa@m17n.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu > Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:17:06 -0400 > > > The problem with that is that ediff-exec-process then uses raw-text to > > read the output from Diff back into Emacs. > > Yes, raw-text is wrong. It should probably use undecided at least, or > otherwise try to be more clever and use the encoding used by the > source files. There are 2 files involved in this, and each one can be in a different encoding. Thus, undecided is also not quite correct, since it will at best most probably pick up at random one of the 2 encodings.