From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:15:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <00a101c92fbf$998d19b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <00eb01c92fd0$1be49cc0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224192635 27740 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2008 21:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 23:31:34 2008 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 1KqaRK-0005QX-1B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqaQE-0007U1-BV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqaQ3-0007Qz-Mu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqaQ2-0007Q9-As for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42819 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqaQ1-0007Py-VV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:55722) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqaQ0-0007sj-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:05 -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 m9GLTx56029948; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:30:00 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m9GLP7Cd028993; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:25:07 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:25:07 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1183 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1183-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1183.122419177327520 (code B ref 1183); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:25:07 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1183) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 16 Oct 2008 21:16:13 +0000 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il (mtaout1.012.net.il [84.95.2.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9GLG9q9027505 for <1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:16:11 -0700 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.24.3]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K8U00KSNOGMB610@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for 1183@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:17:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <00eb01c92fd0$1be49cc0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:07 -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:21566 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23234 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:45:21 -0700 > > > If so, this is expected: > > Well it certainly isn't expected in Emacs 20, 21, or 22, where ediff-buffers > works perfectly for these two files. Why this change for Emacs 23? What's the > gain? Sorry, you are right: Emacs 22 also uses --binary, but doesn't expose this problem. So I guess something else is at work here. I'll look closer when I have time. > And how to change the buffers (e.g. line endings) so ediff-buffers will compare > them correctly? "C-x RET f unix RET C-x C-s".