Re: How to open a file in sh-mode

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Francis Moreau wrote:
>>> yes that would be possible, but I fail to understand why I can't start
>>> emacs in a specific
>>> mode from the command line.
>>>
>>> IOW why can't I simply do ?
>>>
>>>     $ emacs -f sh-mode FOO
>> Because you are doing it in the wrong order. sh-mode will apply to the
>> current buffer. Try
>>
>>  $emacs FOO -f sh-mode
>>
>> But ... - do you really want to do this? It means you are using a new eamcs
>> instance for every file.
>>
> 
> So you mean that I need to this:
> 
> $ cat > emacs-ui-is-dumb.sh<<EOF
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> file=$1; shift
> emacs "$@" $file
> EOF
> 
> and do:
> 
> $ export FCEDIT="emacs-ui-is-dumb.sh"

I do not think I mean that, but maybe if you try to explain your 
intention ... ;-)