Charlie Sears wrote: > Newbie question: My hope is to replace less with emacs, so I want users to > be able to start emacs from the command line, have it view a file using the > view-less mode, and have it exit when q is pressed. (This is to get around > the bug in less that prevents the search function from finding any text on > a line beginning with a null character.) > > Here is what I have tried, and the errors I get: > > $ emacs -nw -f "view-file" > ... > Wrong number of arguments > > > $ emacs -nw -f "view-file file" > ... > Symbol's function definition is void: view-file\ file > > > $ emacs -nw -f "view-file 'file" > ... > Symbol's function definition is void: view-file\ \'file > > > $ emacs -nw -f "view-less" > ... > Symbol's function definition is void: view-less > > > $ emacs -nw -f "view-less file" > ... > Symbol's function definition is void: view-less\ file > > > Any help or suggestions where to look would be appreciated.
The doc says: `-f function' `--funcall=function' Call lisp function *function* with no arguments. So you can't use it to call a function that requires arguments. You want the --eval aka --execute switch as in --eval="(message-mail \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]")" _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
