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bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:02:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> In a discussion in Oct 2007, Stefan said that using the buffer's
> encoding is wrong, see:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg01381.html
> Stefan wanted to use the equivalent of emacs-mule for Emacs 23 instead
> of buffer's encoding, but do we have such an encoding now? Is
> no-conversion-multibyte it? Or maybe utf-8 is good enough?
As mentioned in the past, I think `no-conversion' should be killed
because it's confusing. As for the problem at hand, utf-8-emacs-unix is
what we want to use.
> But first, we should decide whether we want such buffers to compare
> equal or not.
I believe we do, because it's called ediff-buffers. There's ediff-files
for when you want to compare the files.
> We could also let them compare equal, but display a message to the
> effect that the buffers define different encoding for saving them to
> files.
> Opinions?
That would be fine, indeed.
Stefan
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/16
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/16
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/16
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/16
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/16
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Michael Kifer, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Michael Kifer, 2008/10/17
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Drew Adams, 2008/10/18
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/18
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/18
- bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19