Re: Comparing and merging - ediff errors

Hi Dhiraj, looks like some quoting issue is involved here. ediff works well for me in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta14) \"cassava\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Sat Jul 05 2003 on D5DC120J" and has been working well all along at least since the 21.1 series. I have these customizations: ediff-diff-program "diff" ediff-diff-options "--binary " Do you have cygwin installed? I use CYGWIN_NT-5.0 D5DC120J 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Written by Paul Eggert, Mike Haertel, David Hayes, Richard Stallman, and Len Tower. Michael> Yes, this means that diff is acting up. This is not an Michael> ediff error. Michael> If you use ediff-directories, then ediff is asking for Michael> directories, not files. I don't have a windows version Michael> of xemacs, but it must be a problem with the windows port Michael> of XEmacs. ediff-directories works for me too (I couldn't survive without it) in native Windows XEmacs. I use these customizations: ediff-cmp-options ("--ignore-matching-lines=\\$AutoGeneratedBy:" "--ignore-matching-lines=^<!-- Created" "--ignore-matching-lines=\\<\\(RfId\\|Hvd\\(Exp\\)?\\)\\.pl\\>\\|page last modified" "--ignore-matching-lines=^date:" "--ignore-matching-lines=^\\w+, [0-9]+ \\w+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+:[0-9]+:[0-9]+" "--brief") ediff-cmp-program "diff" The --brief switch should be good enough as a starting point. Hope this helps, Adrian Michael> --michael -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/