[0:drdws0066:~]$ mkdir a [0:drdws0066:~]$ cd a [0:drdws0066:a]$ echo "This is file one" > f1 [0:drdws0066:a]$ echo "This is file two" > f2 [0:drdws0066:a]$ diff f1 f2 1c1 < This is file one --- > This is file two [0:drdws0066:a]$ EMACSLOADPATH=: emacs -Q -nw ... M-x ediff-files f1, f2 Message buffer contains: Computing differences between f1 and f2 ... Buffer A: Processing difference region 0 of 1 Buffer B: Processing difference region 0 of 1 Processing difference regions ... done Refining difference region 1 ... ediff-set-fine-diff-properties: Wrong type argument: listp, [#] Quit this Ediff session? (y or n) y [ [In GNU Emacs 24.3.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1) of 2014-04-15 on drdws0066.nyc.desres.deshaw.com System Description: CentOS release 5.9 (Final) Configured using: `configure --prefix=/u/nyc/rendlemc/dpr-centos5/Linux/x86_64/emacs/24.3.90-09A --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64 --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 'CPPFLAGS=-I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/libxml2/2.7.3-05/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/gtkplus/2.22.1-06A/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/dbus/1.2.16-03A/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ncurses/5.7-05A/include/ncurses -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/jpeg/6b-03/shared/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/tiff/3.9.4-01A/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/zlib/1.2.7-10A/shared/include -I/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ImageMagick/6.7.8-2-01/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/libxml2/2.7.3-05/lib -Wl,-rpath=/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/libxml2/2.7.3-05/lib -Wl,-rpath,/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/gtkplus/2.22.1-06A/lib -Wl,-rpath,/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/dbus/1.2.16-03A/lib -Wl,-rpath=/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ncurses/5.7-05A/lib -L/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ncurses/5.7-05A/lib -Wl,-rpath,/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/jpeg/6b-03/shared/lib -Wl,-rpath,/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/tiff/3.9.4-01A/lib -L/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/zlib/1.2.7-10A/shared/lib -Wl,-rpath=/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/zlib/1.2.7-10A/shared/lib -Wl,-rpath,/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ImageMagick/6.7.8-2-01/lib -L/proj/desres/root/Linux/x86_64/ImageMagick/6.7.8-2-01/lib'' Important settings: value of $EMACSLOADPATH: : value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC [ > 1 ; 1 4 0 0 ; 0 c ESC x e d i f f - b DEL f i l e s RET f 1 RET f 2 RET n q y ESC x r e p o r t - e m C-g ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB RET Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Reading file /u/nyc/rendlemc/a/f1 ... Reading file /u/nyc/rendlemc/a/f2 ... Computing differences between f1 and f2 ... Buffer A: Processing difference region 0 of 1 Buffer B: Processing difference region 0 of 1 Processing difference regions ... done Refining difference region 1 ... ediff-set-fine-diff-properties: Wrong type argument: listp, [#] Quit this Ediff session? (y or n) y Quit Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils jka-compr ediff-merg ediff-wind ediff-diff ediff-mult ediff-help ediff-init ediff-util ediff xterm time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 84838 5971) (symbols 48 18953 0) (miscs 40 41 135) (strings 32 12299 5061) (string-bytes 1 402557) (vectors 16 8130) (vector-slots 8 344363 16371) (floats 8 76 273) (intervals 56 266 0) (buffers 960 15) (heap 1024 138147 590))