From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hendrik Boom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359413101 27843 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2013 22:45:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:45:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 23:45:21 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 1TzxS4-0007kf-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzxRm-0004VJ-PQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzxRg-0004VC-HD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzxRc-0002mN-Br for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzxRc-0002mJ-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzxRo-0007bM-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 205.236.70.86 ([205.236.70.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from hendrik by 205.236.70.86 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.236.70.86 User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) 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:88856 Archived-At: This has got to be an utter beginners' question. I've been using emacs for years, bot not ediff, and I must be doing something wrong with ediff. ediff is started from monotone, my revision management system when its automatic merge mechanisms are not sufficient. I gather this kind of thing is the principal use for ediff. I'm running everything through a terminal emulator running ssh between two Debian Linux systems. I get a text-mode XEmacs. It has five panels -- and A and B for the files to be merged, a C for the merged file, an Ediff control panel (containing the line "Type ? for help", and the usual single-line command-entry line at the bottom (the place where ctl X ctl F would expect to be given a file name. When the Ediff control panel is the current buffer, I type 'n' and get the message (in that bottom line): No such coding system: emacs-internal By the way, space gives me the same message. 'p' and 'P' both tell me "At beginning of the difference list", which is reasonable, and 'v' and 'V' both scroll as expected, in opposite directions. What could I possibly be doing wrong? - hendrik