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2001-12-24 Michael Kifer <[e-mail]> * viper-cmd.el (viper-change-state): Got rid of make-local-hook. (viper-special-read-and-insert-char): Make C-m work right in the r comand. (viper-buffer-search-enable): Fixed format string. * viper-ex.el (ex-token-alist): Use ex-set-visited-file-name instead of viper-info-on-file. (ex-set-visited-file-name): New function. * viper.el (viper-emacs-state-mode-list): Added mail-mode. * ediff-mult.el (ediff-meta-mark-equal-files): Added optional action argument. * ediff-init.el: Fixed some doc strings. * ediff-util.el (ediff-after-quit-hook-internal): New variable. Got rid of make-local-hook. * ediff-wind.el (ediff-setup-control-frame): Got rid of make-local-hook.

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This file documents Ediff, a comprehensive visual interface to diff
and patch utilities.

Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

third buffer.  Merging with an ancestor file is also supported.
Furthermore, Ediff is equipped with directory-level capabilities that
allow the user to conveniently launch browsing or merging sessions on
groups of files in two (or three) different directories.

In addition, Ediff can apply a patch to a file and then let you step though
both files, the patched and the original one, simultaneously,
difference-by-difference.  You can even apply a patch right out of a mail
buffer, i.e., patches received by mail don't even have to be saved.  Since
Ediff lets you copy differences between variants, you can, in effect, apply
patches selectively (i.e., you can copy a difference region from

The variable @code{ediff-autostore-merges} is buffer-local, so it can be
set on a per-buffer basis.  Therefore, use @code{setq-default} to change
this variable globally.

@cindex Multi-file patches
A multi-file patch is a concatenated output of several runs of the
@code{diff} command (some versions of @code{diff} let you create a
multi-file patch in just one run).  Ediff facilitates creation of
multi-file patches as follows.  If you are in a session group buffer
created in response to @code{ediff-directories} or
@code{ediff-directory-revisions}, you can mark (by typing @kbd{m}) the

@item ediff-coding-system-for-read
@vindex ediff-coding-system-for-read
This variable specifies the coding system to use when reading the output
that the programs @code{diff3} and @code{diff} send to Emacs. The default
is @code{raw-text}, and this should work fine on GNU, Unix, and in most
cases under Windows NT/95/98/2000.  There are @code{diff} programs
for which the default option doesn't work under Windows. In such cases,
@code{raw-text-dos} might work. If not, you will have to experiment with
other coding systems or use GNU diff.

@item ediff-patch-program

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This file documents Ediff, a comprehensive visual interface to Unix diff
and patch utilities.

Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

third buffer.  Merging with an ancestor file is also supported.
Furthermore, Ediff is equipped with directory-level capabilities that
allow the user to conveniently launch browsing or merging sessions on
groups of files in two (or three) different directories.

In addition, Ediff can apply a patch to a file and then let you step through
both files, the patched and the original one, simultaneously,
difference-by-difference.  You can even apply a patch right out of a mail
buffer, i.e., patches received by mail don't even have to be saved.  Since
Ediff lets you copy differences between variants, you can, in effect, apply
patches selectively (i.e., you can copy a difference region from

The variable @code{ediff-autostore-merges} is buffer-local, so it can be
set on a per-buffer basis.  Therefore, use @code{setq-default} to change
this variable globally.

@cindex Multi-file patches
A multi-file patch is a concatenated output of several runs of the Unix
@code{diff} command (some versions of @code{diff} let you create a
multi-file patch in just one run).  Ediff facilitates creation of
multi-file patches as follows.  If you are in a session group buffer
created in response to @code{ediff-directories} or
@code{ediff-directory-revisions}, you can mark (by typing @kbd{m}) the

@item ediff-coding-system-for-read
@vindex ediff-coding-system-for-read
This variable specifies the coding system to use when reading the output
that the programs @code{diff3} and @code{diff} send to Emacs. The default
is @code{raw-text}, and this should work fine in Unix and in most
cases under Windows NT/95/98/2000. There are @code{diff} programs
for which the default option doesn't work under Windows. In such cases,
@code{raw-text-dos} might work. If not, you will have to experiment with
other coding systems or use GNU diff.

@item ediff-patch-program