From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:54:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83ham0iim5.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359442521 11184 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2013 06:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:55:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 29 07:55:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U056a-0002L5-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:55:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U056I-0004EH-LR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U056D-0004E8-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U056B-0003JZ-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U056B-0003J9-LJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MHD00300KFWC300@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:54:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MHD003Y8KJ4B420@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:54:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88860 Archived-At: > From: Dan Espen > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:13:23 -0500 > > Hendrik Boom writes: > > > This has got to be an utter beginners' question. I've been using emacs > > for years, bot not ediff, and I must be doing something wrong with ediff. > > > > ediff is started from monotone, my revision management system when its > > automatic merge mechanisms are not sufficient. I gather this kind of > > thing is the principal use for ediff. > > > > I'm running everything through a terminal emulator running ssh between > > two Debian Linux systems. I get a text-mode XEmacs. > > This doesn't make sense. > I can't imagine Ediff in a text mode terminal... Well, you can always try, you know. Scoop: it does work. > > It has five panels -- and A and B for the files to be merged, a C for the > > especially, if you see 5 panels. Each one is a window on the same frame, when Emacs runs on a text terminal. Nothing impossible with that, is there? Anyway, the problem has nothing to do with the kind of terminal on which Ediff runs, so all this is not relevant.