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Re: ediff merge wrapper


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: ediff merge wrapper
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:47:17 +0200

> From: Eliza Velasquez <exv@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 12:01:33 -0800
> 
> Internally at Google, we have a wrapper performing an ediff merge with
> emacs/emacsclient which blocks until the merge operation has
> completed. It automatically handles edge cases such as creating a new
> frame over ssh in tty mode or being invoked as an emacs subprocess. I
> think it would be really useful to upstream a tool like this, given
> that using emacs as a merge tool that can be invoked by software such
> as mercurial or perforce can be very fiddly or have unexpected
> behavior.

Can you describe the use of this tool in more detail, and what
enhancements it implements beyond what emacsclient provides?  I don't
think I understand that from your short description.

Thanks.



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