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Yes, changing to "(coding-system-for-read 'raw-text)" also fixes the
problem. Thanks. Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kifer [mailto:kifer AT cs DOT sunysb DOT edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:09 PM
> To: Chuck.Irvine
> Cc: kifer; cygwin; jwalsky; ntemacs-users
> Subject: Re: emacs and cvs : ediff, merge, and ^M
>
>
>
>
> Chuck,
> this line is needed because of Mule.
> However, you are using an old version apparently, because
> several mos ago
> it was changed. 'raw-text is now used.
> Can you check if this also solves the problem you describe?
> (I recall that this was hashed out with a number of NT users as well.)
>
>
> --michael
>
>
> Chuck.Irvine writes:
> >
> > I had a hunch that the ^M characters that I was seeing in
> the buffer
> > *ediff-fine-diff* were the cause of this problem. So, I
> started poking
> > around to see if I could see where this buffer was being
> populated and
> > started examining the method ediff-exec-process. Pretty quickly the
> > line
> > (coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion) caught my eye. Since I had
> > previously thought that the problem might be related to
> coding-system
> > effects, I commented this line out, evaluated the method, and tried
> > again, just to see what happened. Lo and behold, the
> problem went away,
> > i.e. ediff correctly identified the diffs as real instead of just a
> > difference in white space. I've tried a few more things and
> so far it
> > doesn't seem like I've broken anything.
> >
> > So, Michael, what is the purpose of this line of code? Do you think
> > commenting it out will break something somewhere? Any alternative
> > suggestions? Thanks.
> >
> > Joshua, BTW, the first thing that you will need to do is
> download and
> > install the latest version of ediff. Sorry, I can't
> remember where I
> > downloaded it from. And, also, many people will ignore html
> formatted
> > email - not sure exactly why.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jwalsky [mailto:jwalsky AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:34 PM
> > To: cygwin
> > Cc: jwalsky; Chuck.Irvine
> > Subject: emacs and cvs : ediff, merge, and ^M
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I saw the thread initiated by Chuck Irvine about ediff and carriage
> > returns (^M) on Windows back in November, but could not find any
> > resolution.
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/threads.html#01515
> >
> > I am experiencing similar problems, both --binary not being
> understood
> > and ^M appearing upon merge. When files are merged through the cvs
> > update command (with or without conflicts) ^M are inserted
> in the new
> > versions. It seems that whatever is doing the merge for cvs is
> > inserting these carriage returns? Is there any way to stop
> this? Is
> > this a configuration issue? I am not too concerned about
> the --binary
> > issue since I really haven't looked into it thoroughly
> enough, however,
> > I could use some help with the carriage returns.
> >
> > The ediff version I have is 2.70.2 (as indicated by ediff-version)
> > The emacs version I have is 20.7.1 (as indicated by version)
> > The cvs version is 1.11 (as indicated by cvs --version)
> > My cygwin.dll version is 1.1.8 (that is the version I
> downloaded... how
> > can I figure this out if I forgot?)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > - joshua
> >
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