Hello! This isn't a bug but a (tiny) feature request. M-x ediff-buffers RET offers the current buffer as one of the buffers to compare:
,----[ M-x ediff-buffers RET ] | Buffer A to compare: (default test.txt) `---- M-x ediff-backup RET, on the other hand, does not offer the current buffer as the file to compare with its backup: ,----[ M-x ediff-backup RET ] | Ediff (file with backup): ~/ `---- Could this be extended so that it says ,----[ *Suggestion* for M-x ediff-backup RET ] | Ediff (file with backup, default test.txt): ~/ `---- Then the user just has to hit RET. If the file doesn't exist, ediff-backup does the right thing already now, it says `ediff-backup: No backup found for ~/test.txt'. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.7.2) of 2005-04-02 on tesla.local Distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.3.8 configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-f t e s t SPC . t x t <return> f o o C-x C-s M-x e d i f f - b a c k SPC <return> t e s t . <tab> <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u SPC <re turn> Recent messages: Loading tool-bar...done Loading image...done Loading tooltip...done (New file) Wrote /Users/#####/test.txt Loading ediff... Loading help-fns...done Loading ediff...done ediff-backup: No backup found for ~/test.txt Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
