From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu
Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:35:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004801c93087$2b3d5dd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uy70nkrtb.fsf@gnu.org>
> > > > We could also let them compare equal, but display a
> > > > message to the effect that the buffers define different
> > > > encoding for saving them to files. Opinions?
> > >
> > > That would be fine, indeed.
> >
> > Fine, but not enough. If a user wants to see the textual
> > differences between the two buffers, the info that the
> > encodings are different is not helpful enough to get the
> > job done.
>
> You misunderstood. My suggestion, to which Stefan agreed, was that
> _in_addition_ to showing any textual differences, ediff-buffers would
> display a warning saying that the buffers _also_ differ in the way
> they will be encoded on their disk files.
>
> In the extreme case that the text is identical, only the warning will
> remain as the single sign of a difference.
>
> > In the case described, there are real textual differences (an
> > added Lisp sexp), and ediff-buffers is not at all helpful
> > in showing them.
>
> After Ediff is fixed, you will see the diffs you see in Emacs 22, plus
> a message saying that the EOL format is different.
Sounds good. Sorry for misunderstanding. "Let them compare equal" threw me off;
I thought you were saying that the two buffers I reported on *should* be
considered equal by ediff-buffers.
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2008-10-16 18:47 ` bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken Drew Adams
2008-10-16 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-16 20:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-16 21:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-16 21:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 14:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-17 16:48 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 17:05 ` Michael Kifer
2008-10-17 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-18 3:17 ` Michael Kifer
2008-10-18 3:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-18 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 2:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-19 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-19 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 18:35 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-17 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-19 15:40 ` bug#1183: marked as done (23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken) Emacs bug Tracking System
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