ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

[bhenz]

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Hi,

(I running emacs 21.4.1)

I am trying to hook into the "ediff-startup-hooks" but ediff completely 
ignores my attemps. I have the following code in my .emacs file... 

(require 'ediff) 

;; Get rid of the annoying little (separate) ediff window and 
;; turn it into a 3rd pane in the main emacs window. 
(setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain) 

;; Put files side-by-side 
;(setq ediff-split-window-function 'split-window-horizontally) 

(defun my-ediff-startup-hooks () 
    (this-is-destined-to-fail) 
)

(add-hook 'ediff-startup-hooks 'my-ediff-startup-hooks) 

OK, so the "this-is-destined-to-fail" is a desperate attempt to get ediff 
to do SOMETHING, but even this doesn't generate any warnings or errors! 
which pretty much tells me ediff is NOT using my startup-hook.

Any ideas? Does anyone have example code of doing this similar sort of 
thing. (Preferrably something simple like just a "print" statement in the 
new startup hook?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

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Re: ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

[Alan Mackenzie]

bhenz@lexmark.com wrote on Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:45:32 -0500:
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> Hi,

> (I running emacs 21.4.1)

> I am trying to hook into the "ediff-startup-hooks" but ediff completely 
> ignores my attemps. I have the following code in my .emacs file... 

[ .... ]

> (add-hook 'ediff-startup-hooks 'my-ediff-startup-hooks) 
                               ^
                               |
                               |
                      Please remove this "s"   :-)

> Any ideas? Does anyone have example code of doing this similar sort of
> thing.  (Preferrably something simple like just a "print" statement in
> the new startup hook?

Oh yes!  I've had code doing this sort of thing (i.e. nothing) for years!

> Thanks in advance,
> Bob

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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Re: ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

[bhenz]

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Thank you!

It appears that the documentation for ediff is incorrect? or else there 
are just a lot of people that have bad documentation on the web... (e.g. 
google search for ediff-startup-hooks, or go directly to 
"http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/user-taipan/kraxel/gnuinfo/ediff/Hooks.html")

I've been pulling my hair out over this "typo" for a while now!
Thanks again,
Bob





Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
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bhenz@lexmark.com wrote on Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:45:32 -0500:
> This is a multipart message in MIME format.
> --=_alternative 005162028525712A_=
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

> Hi,

> (I running emacs 21.4.1)

> I am trying to hook into the "ediff-startup-hooks" but ediff completely 
> ignores my attemps. I have the following code in my .emacs file... 

[ .... ]

> (add-hook 'ediff-startup-hooks 'my-ediff-startup-hooks) 
                               ^
                               |
                               |
                      Please remove this "s"   :-)

> Any ideas? Does anyone have example code of doing this similar sort of
> thing.  (Preferrably something simple like just a "print" statement in
> the new startup hook?

Oh yes!  I've had code doing this sort of thing (i.e. nothing) for years!

> Thanks in advance,
> Bob

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").

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Re: ediff naming buffers (newbie alert)

[Kevin Rodgers]

bhenz@Lexmark.com wrote:
 > It appears that the documentation for ediff is incorrect? or else there
 > are just a lot of people that have bad documentation on the web... (e.g.
 > google search for ediff-startup-hooks, or go directly to
 > 
"http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/user-taipan/kraxel/gnuinfo/ediff/Hooks.html") 


Why resort to the web before checking Emacs' own documentation?  It
comes with an Ediff manual (in Info format) that is correct.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers