http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi, everybody. I have a problem. I want to be able to open files in emacs side by side from command line. like this: Code: emacs -sbs file1.txt file2.txt So I added the following code into my .emacs file Code: (defun open-side-by-side (switch) (let ((file1 (pop command-line-args-left)) (file2 (pop command-line-args-left))) (split-window-horizontally) (find-file file1) &n (HowTos)