From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2988@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2988: 23.0.92; Document 'ancestor' in ediff info
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:10:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5zwugsw.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1y6u42ks1.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:31:26 +0100")
> The concept 'ancestor' in ediff info is undocumented. My suspicion is
> that it might be an outdated concept and there is a modern replacement.
AFAIK, it's not outdated. It's simply tied to the notion of 3-way diff,
which you apparently don't know about.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 2:10 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-13 23:31 bug#2988: 23.0.92; Document 'ancestor' in ediff info Leo
2009-04-14 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-04-18 13:53 ` Leo
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