From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell - editing files Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:54:16 +0200 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 1277204125 301 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2010 10:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:55:25 +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 12:55:24 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 1OR18V-0004yB-Lq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:55:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OR18V-00073X-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59250 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OR17i-000720-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR17g-0003uw-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR17g-0003uX-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR17c-0004ZD-38 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:54:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-07-06 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73952 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > 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. .. > Set your EDITOR to use emacsclient. It is, actually. Although I suspect it wasn't working correctly before because of my confusion between EDITOR and my aliases. Now, however, having set it explicitly to emacsclient: ,---- | /home/jg/work/drivers/lib/Src $ env | grep "EDITOR" | EDITOR=emacsclient -t --alternate-editor="" | | /home/jg/work/drivers/lib/Src $ svn pe svn:ignore . | *ERROR*: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs | No changes to property 'svn:ignore' on '.' `----