From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:03:45 -0400 Message-ID: <87k55qrpla.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ocv4tum0.fsf@gmail.com> <49E049B4.6050400@irisa.fr> <87y6u7gk6n.fsf@gmail.com> <87r5zzghke.fsf@gmail.com> <026D8047-C68F-4102-B551-2BBD9D059B2D@Web.DE> <87ocv2srp7.fsf@gmail.com> <28F53258-7170-4BDC-B633-D231BF602FF9@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239541574 18140 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2009 13:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:06:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 15:07:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1LszNu-0006zz-Q9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:06:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LszMW-0003Aw-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:04:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LszMC-0003Ao-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:04:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LszM6-00039v-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48919 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LszM6-00039j-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50707 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LszM6-0003Tj-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LszLu-0002jh-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.28.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:04:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3E9l1FtzTV0T6qVSpvdJ1dEBL8k= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63691 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: Am 12.04.2009 um 01:20 schrieb Sean Sieger: > but I cannot start out with two files named buffers.texi in /tmp ... Modern file systems can offer millions of possible directories. And the number of file names can even be bigger. I'm laughing at myself here; I enjoy how you say things, Pete. I think I must be getting confused with the results the diffs of files under version control and the kind that I get. Again, thank you, thank you---I've got my foot in the door and I am already using Ediff for my purposes; and you've helped me learn to read the documentation.