Re: Looking for an ediff window setup function - two files in new frames

[Bob Doolittle <Robert.Doolittle@Sun.COM>]

Lennart Borgman gmail - lennart.borgman@gmail.com wrote:
> fredf.bobdsun@antichef.net wrote:
>> Does anybody have or know the whereabouts of an elisp
>> ediff-window-setup-function which makes two new
>> frames to display the files being diff'd?  It should then
>> delete the frames when the ediff completes/quits.
>>
>> This seems like it'd be highly desirable and is probably
>> already written somewhere.  I want this because I'm
>> driving the ediff from gnuclient and using an existing
>> version of emacs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Bob
>
>
> Couldn't you just call make-frame-command first in the function you 
> call from gnuclient and then call ediff?
>
> Or just do the call in two steops from gnuclient?

In my case there's a chance (not a certainty) the files are already open 
in existing
frames, so this doesn't work.  I'm a pretty crude elisp hacker, but I 
did write a function
to make-frame and then find-file in that frame for each file first, but 
I couldn't get the
cleanup to work (couldn't find a suitable hook in ediff where the 
buffers/frames weren't
active).  It seems it would be easier in a window-setup-function, since 
this is its job.

-Bob