From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4798C1BD.3030600@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201273080 20880 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2008 14:58:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 15:58:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JIQ0W-0002q5-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:58:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIQ06-0004EI-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIPxs-0002au-HM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIPxo-0002Yk-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIPxo-0002Yf-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:55:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIPxk-00018J-I3; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60423 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JIPxi-00041K-8T; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080125-2, 2008-01-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JIPxi-00041K-8T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JIPxi-00041K-8T eb762c9a920157f8139ee02b5a573a49 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50947 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:50:05 +0100 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> Kevin Rodgers wrote: >>> DaLoverhino wrote: >>>> Hello. I would like to use emacs as I would use say diff or sdiff. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to start emacs in ediff mode and pass along with it >>>> through the command line, the two files I want to ediff? If the >>>> command line is unwieldy, I can always wrap it up in a script. >>> emacs --eval '(ediff-files "file_1" "file_2")' >> It is a bit more difficult on Windows: > > This works for me on Windows: > > emacs --eval "(ediff-files \"file_1\" \"file_2\")" > >> @rem Put this file (ediff.cmd) in your PATH. >> @rem (Created by Setup Helper at Tue Apr 03 20:48:56 2007) >> @rem ----------------------------- >> @rem Starts Emacs ediff (through gnuserv) from command line. >> @rem Takes the two file to compare as parameters. >> @setlocal >> @set f1=%1 >> @set f2=%2 >> @set f1=%f1:\=/% >> @set f2=%f2:\=/% >> @set emacs_cd=%CD:\=/% >> @set emacs_client="c:\emacs\p\070403\emacs\bin\emacsclient.exe" >> @%emacs_client% -n >> @%emacs_client% -e "(setq default-directory \"%emacs_cd%\")" >> @%emacs_client% -n -e "(ediff-files \"%f1%\" \"%f2%\")" > > Can you explain what did you need all this complexity for? Sure: - Emacs client is used. - File names given need not be absolute. - You can not give use \ in the file names. - Be nice, do not put env variables in the users environment The rest is just comments ;-)