From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: how to ediff with the diff buffers in separate frames? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 06:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <532C181C.8080702@iankelling.org> <8738ibg5ho.fsf@web.de> <532CD596.20200@gmail.com> <87eh1rmdmj.fsf@web.de> <53324DF7.3000907@iankelling.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395840722 15491 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2014 13:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ian Kelling , Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 14:32:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSnw9-0000A5-7P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:32:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSnw8-0001uV-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSnvp-0001rc-UN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSnvh-0007lP-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:24808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSnvh-0007lJ-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s2QDVdBB014013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:31:40 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s2QDVcVp005810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:31:39 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s2QDVc45023242; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:31:38 GMT In-Reply-To: <53324DF7.3000907@iankelling.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96766 Archived-At: > > By default, Ediff should reuse your two frames when they are already > > displaying the buffers to diff. Is that the case for you? If yes, I'm > > not sure I understand your intention. >=20 > No. That doesn't happen. Perhaps it is a problem with the dev version of > emacs I'm using. I will investigate further. Thanks. `M-x ediff-buffers' should do what you expect. (I bind it to `C-=3D b', and I bind `C-=3D f' to `ediff-files'.) If necessary, click in each frame first, to make those two buffers the default choices. Then just hit `RET' for each default choice. Ensure that neither of the buffers is also displayed elsewhere (e.g. in another frame) - that can confuse ediff.