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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
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Adam Funk |
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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? |
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:18:58 +0000 |
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On 2010-02-02, Bit Twister wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> The emacs command can take a list of filename arguments, so why can't
>> I get xargs to work with it?
>>
>> $ find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs -nw
>> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>>
>> $ grep -rl 'foo' some/path |xargs emacs -nw
>> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>
>
> Maybe it's the -nw switch. Try
> find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs
Yes, it works without -nw, but I'm often logged into an ssh server so
it's faster to open emacs in the xterm.
Anyway, the solution (posted by Thierry in gnu.emacs.help) turns out
to be this:
emacs -nw $(find . -name '*.txt')
Thanks.
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- Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, (continued)
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, Bit Twister, 2010/02/03
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, hymie!, 2010/02/04
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, David Combs, 2010/02/10