Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: add support for ediff

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The reason I personally use emacsclient is not about the
>> start-up delay, but with the access to existing buffers,
>> keyboard macros, Gnus buffers, ... IOW the access to the
>> "session" while editing.  I suspect people with long running
>> Emacs session use emacsclient for that reason.
>
> Sure, but do you need access to existing buffers, keyboard, macros,
> etc., if you're simply firing up an emacs to handle a merge conflict?
>
> If the goal is just to run a merge application, then firing up a
> separate process makes a lot more sense.

> In my mind it's on the hairy edge. Alternatively we just never use
> ediff by default, and assume that either expert users can hack their
> .emacs.el file to have the right overrides will use ediff, or who are
> willing to put up with ediff's user-hostile approach to quitting an
> merge session.