From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Hyatt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3229: 23.0.93; ediff-directories isn't buffer coding system independent Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:54:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873abipo0e.fsf@tnei.co.uk> <004c01c9ce5c$c5f04220$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466049337 22573 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2016 03:55:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:55:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3229@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 05:55:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1bDOOj-0003le-EQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:55:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOOf-0000QZ-Ao for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOOa-0000P8-Gs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOOU-0007AE-JO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOOU-00079h-Ez for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDOOU-0002vQ-4K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:55:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andrew Hyatt Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 3229 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3229-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B3229.146604926611195 (code B ref 3229); Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3229) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jun 2016 03:54:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42779 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDONt-0002uU-OG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qk0-f177.google.com ([209.85.220.177]:35471) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDONs-0002uI-7t for 3229@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qk0-f177.google.com with SMTP id c73so41744788qkg.2 for <3229@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:54:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=rrYfFa+u7yE6to9f9MNpAaFcnkoucrwh0SbtRUFRyyE=; b=grkSZ3Hidazs66Bg1QtDhphPwnKeA+rd/LmhBcou534Ojtx3y9sZhiTAallNDeU7KS Nrr0XpxDuCNjzf7poMQYgCRy29+/drlEZ6ybiBXtXsqmuorNzLmtPBI7ZiuxBAcixwEe jdehDDnDjifh+CfcvcONmofdC0dKTrUdAzT8+KxvacupknfjhS4p7+W+G3JoXQswMHAT KJp7pKWIBq2n6ajxONW1HOqDysR77COtE0wrM6gCwiIS8dCDJ42vYfaIuNNvpFX3NwIs MMEZIn65xG3ATjw8MPqnwRBgnWU3P3BA6hLXsNA8YOIpZuwJ8dMlGUQmGfjIF2WcPC9v EGHA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=rrYfFa+u7yE6to9f9MNpAaFcnkoucrwh0SbtRUFRyyE=; b=JftrSwGgZ4/8QzVQgMSuI0X7E9Da9kDgK4MaFXXne7rItVricBsVjUTXt4qcMhy7/J tgeIeYjlpz8/lm8zHH7tJZTfUW4RPy9I1VR53DgIVGiTGDhkq+IJ9hWuRPCthBuKFAR5 i0XPi/LubmkA4uFqikAEGTUipFbIlEFYpYN46v94LBSYgYQue6f27lbDui3JIwi3UYvY qQsrUB6KQxQfXjaQf9wO9O/UsNTc5QOq/9rO1raHSAfX0EOC4ZXshzpNb5yxhOoeHyhy hZc9/dp3m+9yOCULrwvmqBTOoLkMcSt8nykjuRWBoAF89/OJ83hcaFf/n2JRHvyq3PYN BklQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tLExryH1fHuhDtjUqj9ODFw1vdfR3UgomrOCN33DAlrtl0yGRAokdEPEVYithgqew== X-Received: by 10.55.69.69 with SMTP id s66mr2488787qka.117.1466049258626; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local (cpe-74-73-128-199.nyc.res.rr.com. [74.73.128.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 13sm10555148qki.3.2016.06.15.20.54.16 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:54:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <004c01c9ce5c$c5f04220$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 6 May 2009 08:10:19 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119614 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> > 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). > > Caveat: I haven't followed this thread, but this sounds similar to bug #1183. > > I believe that the #1183 thread ended with Eli asking Michael Kifer to have > Ediff let you know that the two have the same (or similar) content but different > coding systems and hence different byte sequences. > > Perhaps that never got fixed/finished? It sounds to me that this is more of a feature request than a bug at this point. If anyone disagrees, let me know, otherwise I'll reclassify this in a few weeks.