From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#3229: 23.0.93; ediff-directories isn't buffer coding system independent Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:29:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873abipo0e.fsf@tnei.co.uk> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 3229@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241622093 5626 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2009 15:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 3229@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Robert Marshall Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 17:01:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M1icX-0000PU-W0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 17:01:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1icX-0000zq-8l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 11:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1iTd-0006KQ-BD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1iTX-0006HD-7D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54684 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1iTW-0006Gu-Vi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:55915) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1iTU-0000wa-Jj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n46Eprtp013678; Wed, 6 May 2009 07:51:54 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n46Ee52f009743; Wed, 6 May 2009 07:40:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 14:40:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3229 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12416204968283 (code B ref -1); Wed, 06 May 2009 14:40:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 6 May 2009 14:34:56 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:52:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:27747 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:24394 Archived-At: > I have two files with the same name (extracted from two svn > repositories) one of which has a coding system of undecided-dos, the > other is undecided-unix. > WHen I perform an ediff-buffers between the two files loaded into > emacs I get - correctly - zero reported differences. However if I look > at the differences using ediff-directories I get a single difference > region consisting of the whole file. Presumably you'll get the same "one big hunk diff" if you use ediff-files. Both ediff-files and ediff-directories work (as the name implies) on files (and directories), not on buffers. While the two buffers show similar (or even identical) contents, the corresponding files are different (contain different byte sequences because of the different coding-system). Stefan