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 17:54:52 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8739wfz5c3.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277222136 8363 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2010 15:55:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:36 +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 17:55:35 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 1OR5ox-0006Bt-9o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:55:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OR5ow-0002Up-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41317 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OR5oX-0002UN-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR5oW-0000O1-JC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR5oW-0000Nq-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR5oT-0005tv-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:55:01 +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 17:55:01 +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 17:55:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 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:73960 Archived-At: Gary writes: > Thierry Volpiatto writes: >> Gary writes: >>> 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? > ... >>> ,---- >>> | /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 '.' >>> `---- >> >> Are you running these commands from inside emacs? eshell? where? > > Yes, inside eshell, which is inside an emacsclient/server pair. > >> If yes, because your EDITOR is bind to emacsclient -t, it try to open an >> emacsclient inside the emacs terminal (eshell or something else) and it >> fail because terminal is not powerful enough to run emacs. > > Aha! Yes. Adding > > (eshell/export "EDITOR=emacsclient") > > to ~/.eshell/login makes everything work :) Yippee! > > Thanks, all. > If you follow the advice elsewhere in the thread and bind it to an edit script and use the --alternate-editor="" in the script you wont have to worry about starting the daemon yourself - emacsclient will do it for you. The benefit is then that other apps can use EDITOR too without knowing anything about emacs.