bug#17285: 24.3.90: EDIFF fails with 'Wrong type argument: lisp' in ediff-set-fine-diff-properties

[Charles Rendleman]

The patch fixed the problem.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> wrote:

Charles Rendleman <carendle@gmail.com> writes:
> ediff-set-fine-diff-properties: Wrong type argument: listp, [#<overlay
> from 14 to 17 in f1>]

This looks like a duplicate of #17257, fixed a few days ago. You can try
to rebuild emacs or apply the fix to your tree:

diff --git a/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el b/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
index f429eb3..ed248fb 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el
@@ -822,8 +822,9 @@ one optional arguments, diff-number to refine.")
                (ediff-get-symbol-from-alist
                 buf-type ediff-fine-diff-face-alist)
                )))
-    (dolist (overl fine-diff-vector)
-      (ediff-set-overlay-face overl face))))
+    (mapc (lambda (overl)
+           (ediff-set-overlay-face overl face))
+         fine-diff-vector)))

 ;; Set overlays over the regions that denote delimiters
 (defun ediff-set-fine-overlays-for-combined-merge (diff-list reg-num)


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Nico.