Ediff Confused

Michael Kifer kifer at cs.sunysb.edu
Mon Jun 25 16:01:20 EDT 2007


Tom,
I cannot reproduce this. I am getting /dir1/dir2/ and /dir1/ to compare with or
without slashes.  This works the same both in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.


	--michael  

> Attached is the output from M-x ediff-submit-report.
>
> -Tom
>
> 
> ediff-directories is confused by a trailing slash on default directory names. For example, say I'm in directory 
> /dir1/dir2 
> and I start ediff for directory comparison the minibuffer will show
> "/dir1/dir2/" and I hit return. The minibuffer then shows "/dir1/" and I
> hit return and I get a response that the two directories are the same. If
> I do the same sequence but for each directory trim the trailing slash in
> the minibuffer, everything works as it always has (I believe that the old
> behavior did not have the trailing slash as the default as it does now). 
> 
> Emacs  : XEmacs 21.5  (beta28) "fuki" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux, Mule) of Thu Jun  7 2007 on hammer2.fedora.redhat.com
> Package: Ediff 2.81.1 of October 23, 2006



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