Hi,
The command `ediff-buffers' or `ediff-files' does not work when the
dired buffer for "/tmp/" is open. It may not be a bug because there
is a way to avoid the problem. For example, I can achieve it using
the function definition as such as follows:
(defun ediff-file-remote-p (file-name)
(let ((handler (find-file-name-handler file-name 'file-local-copy)))
(and handler (not (eq handler 'dired-handler-fn)))))
However, I could not find out any descriptions about it in manuals
except for a comment in ediff-init.el.
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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org>