From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell - editing files Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:17:54 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277198406 11774 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2010 09:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:20:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 22 11:20:05 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 1OQzeG-0000D6-UL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQzeF-0006oq-AU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54700 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQzcQ-0006WW-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQzcP-0005Iw-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQzcO-0005Ig-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQzcL-0007Ym-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73950 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 > `---- > Set your EDITOR to use emacsclient. The emacs wiki has more details. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient#toc2