From: Stefan Monnier Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:18:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] merge-recursive: add a label for ancestor Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100315080703.GJ8824@progeny.tock> > I would be interested to know which merge tool chokes on |||||||. ;) In my case, it was smerge-mode.el (a minor mode included in Emacs since Emacs-22, which highlights such conflicts and tries to help you resolve them). Stefan PS: As you may have guessed, I'm the primary author of this Emacs package.