From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: emacs -nw hangs on redirect
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:18:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YiQpb.353$lK3.330@news.level3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3114.1067953597.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.3114.1067953597.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Victor Lesk <victorlesk@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi emacs,
>
>I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on a linux ix86.
>
>in bash, the command
>emacs -nw > out.txt
>hangs.
>
>(the command emacs > out.txt works fine).
>
>Can you explain why/suggest a workaround?
What are you trying to accomplish? Emacs expects its stdin and stdout to
be a video terminal or emulator that it can perform cursor control on. It
doesn't make much sense to redirect its output to a file.
If you want to capture the output of Emacs, run it inside a "script"
session.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.3114.1067953597.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-04 16:18 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-11-04 13:43 emacs -nw hangs on redirect Victor Lesk
2003-11-05 1:06 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.3179.1067994861.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-05 1:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-07 1:01 ` Richard Stallman
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