Questions tagged [invocation]
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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 two files to diff. Rather, emacs prompts me for…
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Preset search isearch-string from command line
I am trying to set isearch-string from the command line. The purpose is to have a Perl script start Emacs with a given search string, and go directly to the first line of the string and enter search mode. For example:
$ emacs +2 t.txt -l srep.el…
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Portable Emacs: Remapping user-emacs-directory
The Problem
I want to install Emacs on a USB Flash Drive in a portable fashion, that is, Emacs should be able to be run from the UFD, once plugged on a device, without predefined paths to its binaries and save all its persistent data on the UFD.
To…
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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 on Windows to start a single instance and open files…
Stéphane Gourichon
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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)'
emacs -e '(global-linum-mode)'
And of these two…
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How to invoke Emacs from MS DOS prompt with a function with argument?
Inspired by the question Launch emacs with ediff-files (of ediff-directories) from command line and the answer https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/3623/2609, I tried
emacs --eval '(set-background-color "green")'
from an MS DOS prompt without sucess.…
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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 transformed output file. After doing so, I'd like…
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