From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7111: 24.0.50; `diff' argument order and doc string Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:17:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <391B650E02944435B9955B4E683DB497@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285623692 12278 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 21:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 23:41:31 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0LRz-0002Sp-6J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0LRy-0000TK-I3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0L4V-0002R8-JA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.133]:42920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0L4V-0002Qy-Bt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:17:15 -0400 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-SpamDetails: not scanned X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Original-Received: from cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.9.122.85]:54716 helo=Victoria.local) by ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.159]:587) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:sl392) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) id 1P0L4U-0002Pe-hl (Exim 4.72) (return-path ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:17:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <391B650E02944435B9955B4E683DB497@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:50:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:15:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40500 Archived-At: On 2010-09-26 22:50 +0100, Drew Adams wrote: > Yes, when `diff' is used as a command-line command. > > But in Emacs you often want to diff a current file (line in Dired, current > buffer file, etc.) against some other file, often the backup (old version) of > the same file. That is the rationale, I think, behind the chosen order. > I hardly use `diff' in emacs directly so no problem with this ;) Leo