Re: ediff from command line?

[Jim Smith]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Jim Smith <3.141592six@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I would like to use emacs/ediff as an external diff program with
>> tortoise CVS on the windows platform. Basically, this means I need
>> to invoke emacs from the command line with two file arguments and
>> have emacs open an ediff session on those two files.
>
> (defun command-line-diff (switch)
>   (let ((file1 (pop command-line-args-left))
>         (file2 (pop command-line-args-left)))
>     (ediff file1 file2)))
>
> (add-to-list 'command-switch-alist '("diff" . command-line-diff))
>
> ;; Usage: emacs -diff file1 file2
>

Thanks for all the replys.  I won't be able to try them out until next
week, but so far It looks like this is exactly what I was looking for.