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Re: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion
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Dan Espen |
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Re: 'n' doesn't work when using ediff -- an ediff beginners's quesstion |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:13:23 -0500 |
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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...
> It has five panels -- and A and B for the files to be merged, a C for the
especially, if you see 5 panels.
> merged file, an Ediff control panel (containing the line "Type ? for
> help", and the usual single-line command-entry line at the bottom (the
> place where ctl X ctl F would expect to be given a file name.
>
> When the Ediff control panel is the current buffer, I type 'n' and get
> the message (in that bottom line):
>
> No such coding system: emacs-internal
Search for this message using Google.
This is emacs help, not XEmacs.
--
Dan Espen
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