merge files with emacs

merge files with emacs

[alexcwu88]

Hi

I'd like to start emacs in file merge with two file names
supplied from shell command line.

emacs -f emacs-function file1.txt file2.txt

ediff-merge-files does not accept command line filenames,
how to write emacs function which can take command line
arguments?

Thanks in advance
Alex

Re: merge files with emacs

[J. David Boyd]

alexcwu88@gmail.com writes:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to start emacs in file merge with two file names
> supplied from shell command line.
>
> emacs -f emacs-function file1.txt file2.txt
>
> ediff-merge-files does not accept command line filenames,
> how to write emacs function which can take command line
> arguments?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Alex


This was on the group a few months back.  I've never actually tried it, but it
should get the gist of the matter across to you...

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; > I would like to use emacs/ediff as an external diff program with
; > tortoise CVS on the windows platform. Basically, this means I need
; > to invoke emacs from the command line with two file arguments and
; > have emacs open an ediff session on those two files.

(defun command-line-diff (switch)
  (let ((file1 (pop command-line-args-left))
        (file2 (pop command-line-args-left)))
    (ediff file1 file2)))

(add-to-list 'command-switch-alist '("diff" . command-line-diff))

;; Usage: emacs -diff file1 file2

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Re: merge files with emacs

[Edward O'Connor]

alexcwu wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to start emacs in file merge with two file names
> supplied from shell command line.
>
> emacs -f emacs-function file1.txt file2.txt

Something along the lines of

emacs --eval "(ediff-merge-files \"$file1\" \"$file2\")"

should do the trick.


Ted

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