Re: Regarding smerge upper/lower; needs NEWS

[Richard Copley]

On 7 April 2017 at 20:23, Richard Copley <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7 April 2017 at 20:09, Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Richard Copley <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=bdfee01a6567b9f08f82bc84d1196e6cb62587ca
>>>
>>> I've had plenty of time to think about this and I still don't get
>>> it. Why are we calling the left window UPPER and the right window
>>> LOWER? In the lower pane (the conflicted file for resolution)
>>> they are called "variant A" and "variant B". Shouldn't we call
>>> them that too, so that we know which one is which?
>>>
>>
>> You seem to be talking about ediff or emerge, but this thread is about
>> smerge which operates in a single buffer, no windows involved.
>
> Thanks, I knew I must have been missing something. IMO making
> smerge weird is a disadvantage of this change.

Sorry. Let's say I meant emerge.