From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:42:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.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 1201142587 2009 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2008 02:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:43:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 03:43:27 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 1JHs3q-0004pz-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:43:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHs3Q-0006vg-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHs33-0006su-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHs31-0006p5-PW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHs31-0006oo-HD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHs31-0007UP-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JHs2w-0000cs-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:42:30 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:42:30 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:42:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Macintosh/20071210) In-Reply-To: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50904 Archived-At: 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")' -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA