Re: Regarding smerge upper/lower; needs NEWS

[Noam Postavsky]

On 15 March 2018 at 16:10, Richard Copley <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> It would have helped to cite the last time you raised this issue, where
>>> a patch for your usage was suggested.
>>>
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00349.html
>>
>>
>> Yes, sorry about that. My message today was meant to be a reply to that
>> very thread. Not sure what went wrong.

Nothing went wrong, I think, but not everyone has the thread in their
inboxes (e.g., if they were not subscribed at the time, or if it was
deleted), so giving a little context can be helpful (the particular
message you quoted in your reply was not especially relevant).

> With that patch, smerge-ediff creates buffers with "A" and "B" in their
> names rather than "UPPER" and "LOWER", which is what I want.
> I still don't know how to use smerge itself, so I don't know what if
> anything is displayed differently in smerge with the patch.

Certainly the intent is to affect nothing else; the patch only changes
smerge-ediff.