From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calling Ediff which ignores whitespaces from VC Dir Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8661vph4dl.fsf@somewhere.org> <86txj8jw2x.fsf@somewhere.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375454392 15607 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 14:39:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:39:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 16:39:52 2013 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 1V5GWF-0003Dt-Tc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:39:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GWF-0004qf-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GVy-0004qP-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GVp-0005O9-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GVp-0005MB-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GVi-0001w0-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:39:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 184.175.13.230 ([184.175.13.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:39:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.13.230 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:39:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.13.230 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n2k0COtBFxmobbaTTV9clbUwFko= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92665 Archived-At: > When you say "load ediff", I assume you mean writing a `require' call, right? Right. > Though there is no error anymore, it does not work: "similar regions" are not > skipped as expected. > Something due to the fact that the variable `ediff-ignore-similar-regions' is > a local one? No. > When checking its value in the Ediff control window, I see it's > nil -- which confirms the fact that the `let' is somehow not "applied" > correctly. No, it's simply that by that time, the let has already ended. The call to `vc-ediff' sets up the various windows/buffers and puts the buffers in the proper modes, and then returns. Stefan