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Re: [h-e-w] Problem using --eval


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Problem using --eval
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 00:10:52 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)

"Konrad, Doug" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to use ediff in emacs from WinCVS to compare two versions of a
> file. It didn't take too long with Google to find people who have done this
> successfully using --eval, as in:
>
>       emacs --eval=(ediff-files "version1" "version2")

You have to quote the argument to --eval so it doesn't get split on
the spaces. Since the argument itself contains quotes, you'll have to
quote them too:

emacs --eval "(ediff-files \"version1\" \"version2\")"





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