From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Advice Required Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:45:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <21582.5824.834302.348583@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414413991 15575 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2014 12:46:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:46:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 27 13:46:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xijgb-0005xM-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:46:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xijgb-0005Hk-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XijgJ-0005HL-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XijgB-00068p-KK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XijgB-00068a-EE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xijg9-0005gN-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.143.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:45:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FD4c+OFG5o4pW4P5ejjKXWSmnVY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100623 Archived-At: > - the calling script launches ediff and then attempts to read from a > named pipe and blocks until input is available > - the advice after ediff-quit sends a character to the named pipe and > un-blocks the read operation You might get the same result more simply by doing something like emacsclient --eval '(progn (ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor ...) (recursive-edit))' Then emacsclient will only return when you exit the recursive edit (i.e. when something runs (throw 'exit ) which you could add to ediff's exit hook). Stefan