Re: Emacs as a command line tool

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Well, it has:
> 
>        -f function
>                Execute the lisp function function.
> 
> to invoke easily a simple function.
> 
> But the problem is that  most functions and commands existing in emacs
> are designed to  be passed parameters or to  be _interactive_.  If you
> program your own batch functions, you can then invoke them easily with
> this -f option (and with -batch and -l).

--eval '(function (quote symbol) "string" 123)'


e.g.


--eval '(ediff-files "file-1" "file-2")'
--eval '(call-interactively (quote find-file))'

-- 
Kevin Rodgers