Re: Ediff fails on compressed files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:55:10 +0200
> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
> 
> Ediff often fails on compressed files.  Take the following steps to
> reproduce it:
> 
> $ echo "foo" | gzip -c > foo.gz
> $ echo "bar" | gzip -c > bar.gz
> $ emacs -Q --eval '(ediff-files "foo.gz" "bar.gz")'
> 
> Emacs will beep and display the buffer "*ediff-errors*" containing a
> line with
> 
> Binary files /tmp/foo.gz and /tmp/bar.gz differ

And why is that a bug?  Perhaps you want `ediff-buffers', not
`ediff-files'?