Re: How do I do _THIS_ with emacsclient?

[David Kastrup]

"Ehud Karni" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:53:05, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi, I have the following problem: I try using something like
>> ${EDITOR} --eval "(ediff-files (pop command-line-args-left) \
>>   (pop command-line-args-left))" "file1" "file2"
>>
>> and when ${EDITOR} is equal to emacsclient, this fails pretty badly:
>> command-line-args-left is nil, and Emacs tried to execute file1 and
>> file2, leading to undefined variable complaints.
>
> I don't know what to do about the argmunents not available with
> `command-line-args-left' but why not use a simpler command like:
>     ${EDITOR} --eval '(ediff-files "file1" "file2")'

Because file1 and file2 may not be properly quoted for use in Lisp
strings.

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