From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <831rt9aiah.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835zilaogo.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="207832"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38575@debbugs.gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 12 12:36:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlQ-000rxJ-UF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:36:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58062 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlP-00081M-RT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlJ-000814-Mn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlI-0008Hg-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlI-0008HC-Ez for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMlG-0005RW-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38575 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38575-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38575.157615051620871 (code B ref 38575); Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38575) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2019 11:35:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59103 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMkW-0005QZ-HY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44655) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMkV-0005QK-1A for 38575@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMkO-0006Tx-KJ; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4479 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ifMkO-0006Vo-0r; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:35:08 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Phil Sainty on Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:15:37 +1300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:173218 Archived-At: > Cc: 38575@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Phil Sainty > 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.