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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: ediff-files from command line ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:51:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E35B7FB.9050104@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: %ugZ9.248018$C8.834913@nnrp1.uunet.ca

Bogdan Hlevca wrote:

> I'd like to automate an ediff process for a post run test analysis.
> Apparently with -f command line argument you can pass only functions 
> without arguments.
> 
> ediff-files requires arguments and  it will fail when trying to do:
>  $ emacs -f ediff-files "file1" "file2"
> 
> I could do: $ emacs "file1" "file2" and then issue the command M-x 
> ediff-buffers  and followed by 2 other key strokes, but this is not much 
> of an automation.


I do this all the time:


emacs --eval '(ediff-files "file1" "file2")'


-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-27 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 20:19 ediff-files from command line ? Bogdan Hlevca
2003-01-27 22:51 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-01-31 23:36   ` Jeffery B. Rancier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1288.1044056408.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-01 18:56     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-03 17:23     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-03 18:04       ` Jeffery B. Rancier
     [not found] <zqgZ9.248016$C8.834913@nnrp1.uunet.ca>
2003-01-27 22:10 ` Who indeed?
2003-01-27 22:58   ` Bogdan Hlevca

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