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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Ediff from command line - winXP
Date: 04 Nov 2003 07:46:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1xsod6st.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bo74dm$g9b$1@sunsite.dk> (pengman@pengworld.zzn.com)

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> From: "Søren \"Pengman\" Pedersen" <pengman@pengworld.zzn.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:55:47 +0100
> 
> Im trying to invoke emacs to do a comparesion of two files under windows XP
> with
> emacs -f (ediff-files "file1" "file2")
> from a command line, but O get the following errors in the *messages* buffer
> within emacs
> 
> command-line-1: Symbol's function definition is void: \(ediff-files
> Server subprocess exited

Use --eval instead of -f, and put the entire parenthesized expression
into quotes, to make it a single argument.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-04  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-04  2:55 Ediff from command line - winXP Søren "Pengman" Pedersen
2003-11-04  5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-11-04  7:34 ` Stefan Reichör
2003-11-04 11:28   ` Søren "Pengman" Pedersen
2003-11-05  9:03     ` Stefan Reichör
2003-11-06 16:57       ` Søren "Pengman" Pedersen

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