Re: ediff from command line?

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Smith <3.141592six@gmail.com> writes:
    Jim> 
    Jim> I would like to use emacs/ediff as an external diff program with
    Jim> tortoise CVS on the windows platform.  Basically, this means I need to
    Jim> invoke emacs from the command line with two file arguments and have
    Jim> emacs open an ediff session on those two files.


Here's an excerpt from my edif shell script. Note that since I don't want a
new emacs all the time, I use "gnuclient -batch" instead of emacs:

if [ -n "$3" ]
then
    gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files3 \"$1\" \"$2\" \"$3\")"
else
    gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$1\" \"$2\")"
fi

HTH

Klaus

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