help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buff


From: unfrostedpoptart
Subject: Re: Function to parse a "diff" command line to load both files into buffers and ediff them
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 10:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:29:54 AM UTC-7, David Karr wrote:
> Quite often I find myself in a situation where I have a "diff" command that 
> was run in a shell buffer, and I want to "transfer" that into ediff, by 
> simply loading both of the files specified on the diff command line and then 
> running ediff to compare them.  I could probably do this with a keyboard 
> macro, but this just seems like something that someone must have thought of 
> doing before.  I tried paging through the many functions that begin with 
> "ediff-", but I didn't see anything that sounds like what I describe.  I'm 
> using version "2.81.5".

I'd really like this too.  I'm not a great e-lisp coder but I'd guess this 
wouldn't be too hard using emacs client.


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]