Re: Ediff fails on compressed files

[Sven Joachim]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

It works on Emacs 21, provided that auto-compression-mode is enabled.
So I think it should work on Emacs 22, too.

> Perhaps you want `ediff-buffers', not `ediff-files'?

Well, `ediff-buffers' fails the same way. :-(
If you want to reproduce it, be sure to remove the files
/tmp/{foo,bar}.gz first -- if they exist, the bug is not triggered.

(And create the original ones in your home directory, not in /tmp.)