From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: DaLoverhino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:58:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4798C1BD.3030600@gmail.com> <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201297288 14552 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2008 21:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 22:41:48 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 1JIWIy-0002wd-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIWIX-000747-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:41:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.57.82.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1201294682 13548 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2008 20:58:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.57.82.2; posting-account=D7lNFAoAAAA0V64hSKsFQlaJ2htE_g1z User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155576 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:50962 Archived-At: On Jan 25, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:20 +0100 > > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > > CC: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org > > > - 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 > > Which of these problems are relevant to the simple invocation of Emacs > that I suggested: > > > > emacs --eval "(ediff-files \"file_1\" \"file_2\")" > > As for this one: > > > - Emacs client is used. > > I don't see how is this relevant to the OP's question: if they already > have Emacs running, they could simply invoke Ediff from within that > Emacs session. And if Emacs is not running, what's the advantage of > using emacsclient? You guys are too smart for me. I can't follow your arguments. :) But if this helps, the reason why I wanted to know how to start emacs in ediff mode is so that I can use it with svn (revision source control.) svn's diff program isn't very good. However, svn allows you to fire up your own diff program to do the diffs. svn has a graphical version which I hear is more user friendly. However, making a long story short, I can't effectively control what software gets installed on my devbox. So that's why I was hoping to use emacs for my diff program.