bug#17259: ediff-set-fine-diff-properties-in-one-buffer uses dolist on a vector?

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package:  emacs

        In edce85e3 [1], ediff-set-fine-diff-properties-in-one-buffer
        was edited to use dolist (was: mapcar) to iterate over the
        fine-diff-vector local variable, resulting now in errors like:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp [#<overlay from 1210 
to 1210 in  *XXX*> #<overlay from 1220 to 1269 in  *YYY*>])
  ediff-set-fine-diff-properties-in-one-buffer(A 0 nil)
  ediff-set-fine-diff-properties(0)
  ediff-make-fine-diffs(0 noforce)
  ediff-install-fine-diff-if-necessary(0)
  ediff-next-difference(1)
  call-interactively(ediff-next-difference nil nil)
  command-execute(ediff-next-difference)

        Replacing dolist with an equivalent mapc invocation has fixed
        the issue for me.

        If, OTOH, dolist is actually /supposed/ to work on non-list
        sequences, I’d like to suggest updating its documentation, which
        currently reads:

(defmacro dolist (spec &rest body)
  "Loop over a list.
Evaluate BODY with VAR bound to each car from LIST, in turn.
Then evaluate RESULT to get return value, default nil.

\(fn (VAR LIST [RESULT]) BODY...)"
  …)

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/lisp/vc/ediff-diff.el?h=emacs-24&id=edce85e3a164a57da09c564c4f2a8edc8f009df1

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