From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "alin.s" <alinsoar@voila.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: open file and command substitution of bash
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:48:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33839.130.55.118.19.1262620114.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27014612.post@talk.nabble.com>
> emacs /dev/fd/5
You could just do emacs <(ls) -- bash replaces <(ls) with something like
/dev/fd/63 anyway.
> However, I suppose that emacs uses pipes for implementing processes... It
> cannot read its stdin from a pipe and create a buffer with?
Certainly one could (in C) arrange for Emacs to open a file name and treat
it as if it were a pipe from a process. But Emacs doesn't consider that
the same operation as visiting a file, which is what is requested when you
use file names as arguments.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 15:37 open file and command substitution of bash alin.s
2010-01-04 15:48 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2010-01-05 9:13 ` alin.s
2010-01-05 17:08 ` Davis Herring
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