From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:03:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0801250903v4743e262l4bdd69634ec497e9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uhch1n95l.fsf@gnu.org>
On Jan 25, 2008 5:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > - 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\")"
I think Lennart is saying that if file_1 and file_2 are relative,
Emacs does not find them, and if they are absolute, the backslashes in
the paths cause problems (at the very least, they must be escaped
themselves).
> 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?
Lennart's patched emacsclient starts Emacs automatically.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 0:51 Starting emacs in ediff mode DaLoverhino
2008-01-24 2:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-24 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 14:55 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 17:03 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-01-26 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-26 13:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-26 14:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.6567.1201357297.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-26 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 20:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-26 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.6561.1201337056.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-27 13:17 ` Richard G Riley
2008-01-27 14:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-27 15:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-27 22:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-28 16:00 ` reader
2008-01-28 16:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-28 16:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.6605.1201445728.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 11:32 ` Richard G Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.6531.1201279722.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-25 20:58 ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-26 7:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.6460.1201142559.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-24 16:40 ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-24 18:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-24 18:50 ` Rob Wolfe
2008-01-25 20:51 ` DaLoverhino
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