From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>
To: dak@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I do _THIS_ with emacsclient?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:10:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707292010.l6TKA5bi005095@beta.mvs.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85odhvugpg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:56:27 +0200)
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:56:27, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:53:05, David Kastrup wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi, I have the following problem: I try using something like
> >> ${EDITOR} --eval "(ediff-files (pop command-line-args-left) \
> >> (pop command-line-args-left))" "file1" "file2"
> >>
> >> and when ${EDITOR} is equal to emacsclient, this fails pretty badly:
> >> command-line-args-left is nil, and Emacs tried to execute file1 and
> >> file2, leading to undefined variable complaints.
> >
> > I don't know what to do about the arguments not available with
> > `command-line-args-left' but why not use a simpler command like:
> > ${EDITOR} --eval '(ediff-files "file1" "file2")'
>
> Because file1 and file2 may not be properly quoted for use in Lisp
> strings.
Is it a real problem or a principal one ?
For real life you can always do:
ln -s "file1" /tmp/file1_$$
ln -s "file2" /tmp/file2_$$
${EDITOR} --eval '(ediff-files "'/tmp/file1_$$'" "'/tmp/file2_$$'")'
rm -f /tmp/file1_$$ /tmp/file2_$$
Ehud.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 17:53 How do I do _THIS_ with emacsclient? David Kastrup
2007-07-29 19:53 ` Ehud Karni
2007-07-29 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-29 20:10 ` Ehud Karni [this message]
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