Ken Goldman <kgold...@us.ibm.com> writes: > Windows 7 GNU Emacs 24.2.1: > > When I run ediff-files, it works. > > When I try ediff-buffers to compare two files I'm already editing, I > get this in a ediff-errors buffer: > > Files c:\Users\IBM_AD~1\AppData\Local\Temp\file2.txt and > c:\Users\IBM_AD~1\AppData\Local\Temp\file2.txt differ > > It doesn't open the ediff buffer or display differences. > > ~~ > > The messages file says: > > Computing differences between file1.txt and file2.txt ... > ediff-prepare-error-list: Errors in diff output. Diff output is in > #<buffer *ediff-diff*>
I get this if one or both buffers do not end in a newline. I think it may be specific to the version of diff I have installed (but I don't remember where I got it from), as I only started to see it recently, and I am sure I must have diffed buffers without terminating newlines in the distant past.