From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell - editing files Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:21:09 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87pqzjtoca.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291837910 11576 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:51:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:51:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQQ3E-0007FD-Vl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:51:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQQ3E-0004kX-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:51:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1W9CmG+zCGoZn9yvVrixewcF+P9IIIhxXfT0upLgig3YUmg3c1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MGI5NjQ2M2RmNjFlM2E4MGNmMmY2YTE2MmZlZWU1ODVlZGNjNjZmZg== sha1:wfdUZlCL+YKhkQdLp/2KcTz5J9I= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179163 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75924 Archived-At: Gary writes: > This may sound like a weird question. Is there any way to configure > eshell so that when I want to edit a file, e.g. by typing "emacs foo", I > instead get a new buffer with the file in? It kind of popped up because > if you do something with svn that requires editing something, I got > ,---- > | $ svn pe svn:ignore . > | emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs. > | It lacks the ability to position the cursor. > | If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, > | use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: > | `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary > | to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. > | svn: system('emacs svn-prop.tmp') returned 256 > `---- Use emacsclient instead. In your ~/.bashrc put: export EDITOR=emacsclient export VISUAL=$EDITOR In your ~/.emacs put: (server-start) For eshell, I don't know how it takes its environment. Perhaps it just uses that of emacs, so you could also put in your ~/.emacs: (require 'cl) (setf (getenv "EDITOR") "emacsclient" (getenv "VISUAL") "emacsclient") Then instead of typing: emacs foo type: emacsclient foo -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/