From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff-files from command line ? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:51:39 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E35B7FB.9050104@ihs.com> References: <%ugZ9.248018$C8.834913@nnrp1.uunet.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043708185 5693 80.91.224.249 (27 Jan 2003 22:56:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18dIAu-0001TA-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:56:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dIAR-0005uf-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:55:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1043707896 32962720 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109470 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5990 Bogdan Hlevca wrote: > I'd like to automate an ediff process for a post run test analysis. > Apparently with -f command line argument you can pass only functions > without arguments. > > ediff-files requires arguments and it will fail when trying to do: > $ emacs -f ediff-files "file1" "file2" > > I could do: $ emacs "file1" "file2" and then issue the command M-x > ediff-buffers and followed by 2 other key strokes, but this is not much > of an automation. I do this all the time: emacs --eval '(ediff-files "file1" "file2")' -- Kevin Rodgers