From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:48:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4798C1BD.3030600@gmail.com> <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201279814 15165 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2008 16:50:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:50:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 17:50:28 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 1JIRkz-0007RK-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIRkZ-0007k8-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIRjM-0007Do-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIRjL-0007C6-LD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIRjL-0007Bs-Dm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIRjK-0003yk-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-250-87.inter.net.il [80.230.250.87]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id ETP57367 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:48:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:50954 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:20 +0100 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > - 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\")" As for this one: > - Emacs client is used. 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?