From: "Stefan Reichör" <stefan.reichoer@riic.at>
Subject: Re: Ediff from command line - winXP
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:03:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w4dwuaf192f.fsf@felix.riic.uni-linz.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bo82eh$i4c$1@sunsite.dk
Hallo Søren!
> that sort of works... And by that I means that it works - but not really in
> the the way I would like to do it:
>
> I would like to be able to use this command in a .bat-file, like:
> compare.bat:
> gnudoit "(ediff \"%1\" \"%2\")"
>
> but that wont work since the filename have to be in either d:\\files\\file1
> (double backslash) or d:/files/file1 (unix way - with single slashes)...
> My questions is now:
> 1: Can I make the emacs system look in the current directory for the files??
> 2: Is there a way to make batch-files expand %1 into either of these paths
> (Might be the wrong NG for this question)
You coud use the emacs function expand-file-name:
expand-file-name is a built-in function.
(expand-file-name NAME &optional DEFAULT-DIRECTORY)
Convert filename NAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
Second arg DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is directory to start with if NAME is relative
(does not start with slash); if DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is nil or missing,
the current buffer's value of default-directory is used.
File name components that are `.' are removed, and
so are file name components followed by `..', along with the `..' itself;
note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting
file names in the file system.
An initial `~/' expands to your home directory.
An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory.
See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'.
gnudoit "(ediff (expand-file-name \"%2\" \"%1\") (expand-file-name \"%3\" \"%1\"))"
Then you call the batch file with the full directory path (don't know
how to get this) and the two file names.
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-05 9:03 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
2003-11-04 7:34 ` Stefan Reichör
2003-11-04 11:28 ` Søren "Pengman" Pedersen
2003-11-05 9:03 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]
2003-11-06 16:57 ` Søren "Pengman" Pedersen
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