Questions tagged [invocation]
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script to Ediff two files in running gui Emacs?
I'm putting together a presentation that involves some live demos in the terminal. In one of the demos, I run a shell script that takes an input file, runs it through an Awk script, and generates a ...
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From an external script, open file and run some simple expression whether emacs already running or not
Context / initial need (works fine) I wrote and use a script that generates a file and uses emacsclient to edit it in an existing or new instance of emacs, in a new window. Similar to Set up Emacs ...
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Launch emacs with ediff-files (of ediff-directories) from command line
I would like to launch emacs to ediff either files or directories. For example, I'd like something like: emacs -f ediff-files file1 file2 But when I do this, it doesn't take file1 and file2 as the ...
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Behavior of '-e' option during emacs invocation
There command-line option -e behaves similar to the --eval option, but yet it is not the same. For example, of these two invocations, only the first one works: emacs --eval '(global-linum-mode)' ...
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