Re: ediff on Win32

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bob Babcock wrote:
> I have a patch to apply to an emacs lisp file.  I think this means I need 
> to use one of the ediff functions.  The problem is, when I load ediff, I 
> get a short beep and emacs becomes unresponsive.  I can't RTFM because even 
> ediff-documentation triggers the hang.  This is Win/2K, emacs 21.3.1 or a 
> CVS version from http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl.  
> Comand-line option -q to not load .emacs doesn't help.

Stick with -q for now, just to simplify debugging the problem.

How do you load ediff?  Try using --debug-init as well as -q,
or `M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET' after you've
started emacs, and post the resulting *Backtrace* buffer.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA