Re: help: howto call ediff from elisp, interactive and multiple args ...

[Peter Daum]

> Peter Daum <gator_ml@yahoo.de> wrote:
>> I have to compare many similar binary files and the best tool I could
>> find so far for this purpose is a combination of emacs, hexl-mode and
>> ediff. Because this involves far too much typing, I am trying to write a
>> little lisp function to set up everything. I already know several ways
>> how not to do this ;-)
[...]
On 2010-11-13 20:16, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
> (defun hexl-ediff (file1 file2)
>   "hexl-find 2 files and run ediff on them"
>   (interactive "fFile 1: \nfFile2:")
>   (let ((buffer1 (progn
>                      (hexl-find-file file1)
>                      (buffer-name (current-buffer))))
>         (buffer2 (progn
>                      (hexl-find-file file2)
>                      (buffer-name (current-buffer)))))
>     (ediff-buffers buffer1 buffer2)))

Exactly what I was looking for and it actually works ;-)

Thanks a lot!
                   Peter