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Re: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:54:58 +0200 |
> From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:13:23 -0500
>
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> writes:
>
> > This has got to be an utter beginners' question. I've been using emacs
> > for years, bot not ediff, and I must be doing something wrong with ediff.
> >
> > ediff is started from monotone, my revision management system when its
> > automatic merge mechanisms are not sufficient. I gather this kind of
> > thing is the principal use for ediff.
> >
> > I'm running everything through a terminal emulator running ssh between
> > two Debian Linux systems. I get a text-mode XEmacs.
>
> This doesn't make sense.
> I can't imagine Ediff in a text mode terminal...
Well, you can always try, you know. Scoop: it does work.
> > It has five panels -- and A and B for the files to be merged, a C for the
>
> especially, if you see 5 panels.
Each one is a window on the same frame, when Emacs runs on a text
terminal. Nothing impossible with that, is there?
Anyway, the problem has nothing to do with the kind of terminal on
which Ediff runs, so all this is not relevant.