Re: Calling emacs functions outside emacs

[Harry Putnam]

Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>     Klaus> gnuclient -batch -eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\"
>     Klaus> \"$file2\")"
>
>     Klaus> though I'm not sure if this works with the standard
>     Klaus> emacsclient instead of gnuclient.
>
> The upcoming Emacs (now in CVS) is accompanied by a new emacsclient
> which is able to evaluate lisp expressions.

It will fail given the flag -eval.  It expects -e or --eval.  Also
doesn't understand -batch as in above gnuclient command so to do the
same as above with cvs emacsclient it would be:

emacsclient --eval "(ediff-files \"$file1\" \"$file2\")"