From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Smith <3.141592six@gmail.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ediff from command line? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:01:59 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120827867 17216 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2005 13:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 15:04:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqsWB-0003pD-Sp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqsXb-0002RQ-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:05:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rcn.net!news.rcn.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:01:59 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:miYwQRLUN8kgjR7wcWbodMfVLdc= Original-Lines: 7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.80.111.66 Original-X-Trace: sv3-KJGoZ+0S35OrinWzFrxqa8qxAyfXxCFvKZiI1dfvNHR62CNOrU9/9gP/WbHITZA8MDrW78+dusQZZ4C!PlWB9PKr9ckIgi7E9OjPPHZI9HhSibdwyjT9FQrQxYzNugBlKX+pdzzI Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132364 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27842 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27842 I would like to use emacs/ediff as an external diff program with tortoise CVS on the windows platform. Basically, this means I need to invoke emacs from the command line with two file arguments and have emacs open an ediff session on those two files. How do I do that? I know I can specifiy a function to be evaluated on the command line, but how do I pass the two file args to ediff-files?