Calling emacs functions outside emacs

Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Francis Brosnan Blázquez]

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Hi.

I've been looking for at the mail-list archive but I didn't find any
question similar. I do know if this question have been already answered.

I'm developing a tool which generates code from an specification. In
this context, I've integrated sdiff tool inside so user can be able to
merge changes that comes from automatic source code generation and his
changes. 

But, sdiff is not ediff mode inside emacs ;)

I'm trying to launch an ediff-session inside in an already opened emacs
from my tool, but I don't know how.

So how can I connect to an already started emacs and launch an ediff
session from a program that doesn't run inside emacs ?

Any help is appreciated!.
Cheers.

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Francis Brosnan Blázquez <francis@aspl.es>
Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.

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Re: Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Francis" == Francis Brosnan Blázquez <francis@aspl.es> writes:
    Francis> 
    Francis> I'm trying to launch an ediff-session inside in an already opened
    Francis> emacs from my tool, but I don't know how.
    Francis> 
    Francis> So how can I connect to an already started emacs and launch an
    Francis> ediff session from a program that doesn't run inside emacs ?

here's how I call ediff in a Korn shell script:

gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\" \"$file2\")"

though I'm not sure if this works with the standard emacsclient instead of
gnuclient.

Klaus


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Re: Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Thorsten Bonow]

>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler+usenet@gsm-mailhost.de.lucent.com> writes:

    Klaus> gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\"
    Klaus> \"$file2\")"

    Klaus> though I'm not sure if this works with the standard
    Klaus> emacsclient instead of gnuclient.

The upcoming Emacs (now in CVS) is accompanied by a new emacsclient
which is able to evaluate lisp expressions.

Toto

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Re: Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Harry Putnam]

Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>     Klaus> gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\"
>     Klaus> \"$file2\")"
>
>     Klaus> though I'm not sure if this works with the standard
>     Klaus> emacsclient instead of gnuclient.
>
> The upcoming Emacs (now in CVS) is accompanied by a new emacsclient
> which is able to evaluate lisp expressions.

It will fail given the flag -eval.  It expects -e or --eval.  Also
doesn't understand -batch as in above gnuclient command so to do the
same as above with cvs emacsclient it would be:

emacsclient --eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\" \"$file2\")"

Re: Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Ian Zimmerman]

Klaus> gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\" \"$file2\")"
Klaus> though I'm not sure if this works with the standard emacsclient
Klaus> instead of gnuclient.

Thorsten> The upcoming Emacs (now in CVS) is accompanied by a new
Thorsten> emacsclient which is able to evaluate lisp expressions.

There's also edoit, which works on GNU Emacs now.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2002/debian-emacsen-200205/msg00010.html

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