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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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