opening file in unix emacs

opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

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Hello-

I don't know if this is the correct procedure but I was wondering if I could get help with emacs.  

I have been using emacs on unix for about 10 years and I always easily opened a file by typing "emacs FILENAME".  At my new job, this only opens the emacs editor and doesn't open FILENAME.  I have tried "emacs -nw FILENAME" and that also just opens an emacs session, not that specific file.  I have checked my .BASHRC file and there are no aliases for emacs.  Any suggestions or is there someone else I could contact?

Thanks



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



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opening file in unix emacs

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Hello- I don't know if this is the correct procedure but I was
LE> wondering if I could get help with emacs.

LE> I have been using emacs on unix for about 10 years and I always
LE> easily opened a file by typing "emacs FILENAME".  At my new job,
LE> this only opens the emacs editor and doesn't open FILENAME.

Try the commands:

    which emacs 

or

    type emacs 

to discover what program you invoke. Then ckeck what this program is.
It could be a script...

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RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

Thanks for the reply.  When I typed "type emacs" I got:

/usr/local/bin/emacs

and that emacs file is:

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 /usr/local/bin/emacs-run

and I can't look at emacs-run.





Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gian Uberto Lauri [mailto:GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:08 PM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: opening file in unix emacs


>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Hello- I don't know if this is the correct procedure but I was
LE> wondering if I could get help with emacs.

LE> I have been using emacs on unix for about 10 years and I always
LE> easily opened a file by typing "emacs FILENAME".  At my new job,
LE> this only opens the emacs editor and doesn't open FILENAME.

Try the commands:

    which emacs 

or

    type emacs 

to discover what program you invoke. Then ckeck what this program is.
It could be a script...

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Thanks for the reply.  When I typed "type emacs" I got:
LE> /usr/local/bin/emacs

LE> and that emacs file is:

LE> SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 /usr/local/bin/emacs-run

LE> and I can't look at emacs-run.

emacs-run is the binary file.

You  invoke  a  shell   script  that  sets  the  envirnoment  variabie
SHLIB_PATH so that Emacs can load some shared libraries.

The solution could be use this shell script

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \
/usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@

(I split the  line at \ for readability sake)  a "trick" commonly used
under Mac OS X to launch the Emacs.app from the command line.

You can  put this script in your  bin (provided that you  put your bin
before /usr/local/bin) or ask your sysadmin to patch the script.

I think that  most users at your site just launch  emacs and then keep
it running all the session long,  you can still use emacsclient to use
the running emacs as an  "editing server" (requires loading the server
lib).

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

thanks, I will check it out.



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gian Uberto Lauri [mailto:GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:41 PM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: saint@eng.it; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Thanks for the reply.  When I typed "type emacs" I got:
LE> /usr/local/bin/emacs

LE> and that emacs file is:

LE> SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 /usr/local/bin/emacs-run

LE> and I can't look at emacs-run.

emacs-run is the binary file.

You  invoke  a  shell   script  that  sets  the  envirnoment  variabie
SHLIB_PATH so that Emacs can load some shared libraries.

The solution could be use this shell script

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \
/usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@

(I split the  line at \ for readability sake)  a "trick" commonly used
under Mac OS X to launch the Emacs.app from the command line.

You can  put this script in your  bin (provided that you  put your bin
before /usr/local/bin) or ask your sysadmin to patch the script.

I think that  most users at your site just launch  emacs and then keep
it running all the session long,  you can still use emacsclient to use
the running emacs as an  "editing server" (requires loading the server
lib).

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

Re: opening file in unix emacs

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri):

| SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \
| /usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@

That last bit should be "$@" (with quotes).  Otherwise, it will fail
when invoked with arguments containing spaces.  (There used to be some
systems whose shells required the bizarre syntax ${1+"$@"} or
something equally weird, but I think those have been buried by now.)

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction
  than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is
  of getting closer to the truth.  -- C.P. Snow

Re: opening file in unix emacs

[Edward Dodge]

"Leip, Eric" <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

> Hello-
> 
> I don't know if this is the correct procedure but I was wondering if I
> could get help with emacs.
> 
> I have been using emacs on unix for about 10 years and I always easily
> opened a file by typing "emacs FILENAME".  At my new job, this only
> opens the emacs editor and doesn't open FILENAME.  I have tried "emacs
> -nw FILENAME" and that also just opens an emacs session, not that
> specific file.  I have checked my .BASHRC file and there are no
> aliases for emacs.  Any suggestions or is there someone else I could
> contact?
> 
> Thanks

Put this in your .emacs:

(server-start)

Then you never need to quit the program.  From then on, if you want to edit a
file, just make an alias for emacsclient:

alias e emacsclient

At the UNIX prompt:

% e <filename>

And your file should be waiting for your edits back at EMACS Home-Base.

-- 
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RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

adding the $@ worked perfectly, thank you



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Leip, Eric 
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:47 PM
To: 'saint@eng.it'
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


thanks, I will check it out.



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gian Uberto Lauri [mailto:GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:41 PM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: saint@eng.it; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Thanks for the reply.  When I typed "type emacs" I got:
LE> /usr/local/bin/emacs

LE> and that emacs file is:

LE> SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 /usr/local/bin/emacs-run

LE> and I can't look at emacs-run.

emacs-run is the binary file.

You  invoke  a  shell   script  that  sets  the  envirnoment  variabie
SHLIB_PATH so that Emacs can load some shared libraries.

The solution could be use this shell script

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \
/usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@

(I split the  line at \ for readability sake)  a "trick" commonly used
under Mac OS X to launch the Emacs.app from the command line.

You can  put this script in your  bin (provided that you  put your bin
before /usr/local/bin) or ask your sysadmin to patch the script.

I think that  most users at your site just launch  emacs and then keep
it running all the session long,  you can still use emacsclient to use
the running emacs as an  "editing server" (requires loading the server
lib).

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

Hello-

My system admin wanted me to ask you if you knew why we were getting this warning when we start emacs up:

Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does not exist.

I have read online that it seems to be some sort of language file that maybe we don't even need?

Thanks



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Leip, Eric 
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:51 AM
To: 'saint@eng.it'
Cc: 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


adding the $@ worked perfectly, thank you



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Leip, Eric 
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:47 PM
To: 'saint@eng.it'
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


thanks, I will check it out.



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gian Uberto Lauri [mailto:GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:41 PM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: saint@eng.it; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Thanks for the reply.  When I typed "type emacs" I got:
LE> /usr/local/bin/emacs

LE> and that emacs file is:

LE> SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 /usr/local/bin/emacs-run

LE> and I can't look at emacs-run.

emacs-run is the binary file.

You  invoke  a  shell   script  that  sets  the  envirnoment  variabie
SHLIB_PATH so that Emacs can load some shared libraries.

The solution could be use this shell script

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pa1.1:/usr/local/lib/pa1.1/X11 \
/usr/local/bin/emacs-run $@

(I split the  line at \ for readability sake)  a "trick" commonly used
under Mac OS X to launch the Emacs.app from the command line.

You can  put this script in your  bin (provided that you  put your bin
before /usr/local/bin) or ask your sysadmin to patch the script.

I think that  most users at your site just launch  emacs and then keep
it running all the session long,  you can still use emacsclient to use
the running emacs as an  "editing server" (requires loading the server
lib).

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

Re: opening file in unix emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.11.2005 um 15:26 schrieb Leip, Eric:

> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does not 
> exist.
>
> I have read online that it seems to be some sort of language file that 
> maybe we don't even need?
>

Right! For English and Latin scripts you wouldn't need it. Even 
accented characters for most European and American languages are no 
problem since they don't need LEIM.

--
Greetings

   Pete

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget 
cuts.

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

thanks.



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE [mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: saint@eng.it; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opening file in unix emacs



Am 09.11.2005 um 15:26 schrieb Leip, Eric:

> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does not 
> exist.
>
> I have read online that it seems to be some sort of language file that 
> maybe we don't even need?
>

Right! For English and Latin scripts you wouldn't need it. Even 
accented characters for most European and American languages are no 
problem since they don't need LEIM.

--
Greetings

   Pete

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget 
cuts.

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Hello- My system admin wanted me to ask you if you knew why we
LE> were getting this warning when we start emacs up:

LE> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does
LE> not exist.

There should be a directory tree like this

root@paperoga:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50# ls -R leim
leim:
ja-dic  leim-list.el  quail

leim/ja-dic:
ja-dic.el  ja-dic.elc

leim/quail:
4Corner.el    QJ-b5.elc      greek.el       latin-alt.elc   slovak.el
4Corner.elc   QJ.el          greek.elc      latin-ltx.el    slovak.elc
ARRAY30.el    QJ.elc         hangul.el      latin-ltx.elc   symbol-ksc.el
ARRAY30.elc   SW.el          hangul.elc     latin-post.el   symbol-ksc.elc
CCDOSPY.el    SW.elc         hangul3.el     latin-post.elc  thai.el
CCDOSPY.elc   TONEPY.el      hangul3.elc    latin-pre.el    thai.elc
CTLau-b5.el   TONEPY.elc     hanja-jis.el   latin-pre.elc   tibetan.el
CTLau-b5.elc  ZIRANMA.el     hanja-jis.elc  lrt.el          tibetan.elc
CTLau.el      ZIRANMA.elc    hanja.el       lrt.elc         tsang-b5.el
CTLau.elc     ZOZY.el        hanja.elc      py-punct.el     tsang-b5.elc
ECDICT.el     ZOZY.elc       hanja3.el      py-punct.elc    tsang-cns.el
ECDICT.elc    croatian.el    hanja3.elc     pypunct-b5.el   tsang-cns.elc
ETZY.el       croatian.elc   hebrew.el      pypunct-b5.elc  uni-input.el
ETZY.elc      cyril-jis.el   hebrew.elc     quick-b5.el     uni-input.elc
PY-b5.el      cyril-jis.elc  indian.el      quick-b5.elc    viqr.el
PY-b5.elc     cyrillic.el    indian.elc     quick-cns.el    viqr.elc
PY.el         cyrillic.elc   ipa.el         quick-cns.elc   vntelex.el
PY.elc        czech.el       ipa.elc        rfc1345.el      vntelex.elc
Punct-b5.el   czech.elc      japanese.el    rfc1345.elc     welsh.el
Punct-b5.elc  ethiopic.el    japanese.elc   sgml-input.el   welsh.elc
Punct.el      ethiopic.elc   lao.el         sgml-input.elc
Punct.elc     georgian.el    lao.elc        sisheng.el
QJ-b5.el      georgian.elc   latin-alt.el   sisheng.elc

and the startup-el file test for the existence of leim-list.el.

LE> I have read online that it seems to be some sort of language file
LE> that maybe we don't even need?

It  is  a  package  that  manages input  in  different  language  with
non iso-8859-1[5] letters in their alphabet.

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione

RE: opening file in unix emacs

[Leip, Eric]

thanks



Eric Leip 
Senior Biostatistician 
PAREXEL International 
200 West Street 
Waltham, MA 02451 
781.434.4276 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gian Uberto Lauri [mailto:GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Leip, Eric
Cc: saint@eng.it; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: opening file in unix emacs


>>>>> "LE" == Leip, Eric <Eric.Leip@parexel.com> writes:

LE> Hello- My system admin wanted me to ask you if you knew why we
LE> were getting this warning when we start emacs up:

LE> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does
LE> not exist.

There should be a directory tree like this

root@paperoga:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50# ls -R leim
leim:
ja-dic  leim-list.el  quail

leim/ja-dic:
ja-dic.el  ja-dic.elc

leim/quail:
4Corner.el    QJ-b5.elc      greek.el       latin-alt.elc   slovak.el
4Corner.elc   QJ.el          greek.elc      latin-ltx.el    slovak.elc
ARRAY30.el    QJ.elc         hangul.el      latin-ltx.elc   symbol-ksc.el
ARRAY30.elc   SW.el          hangul.elc     latin-post.el   symbol-ksc.elc
CCDOSPY.el    SW.elc         hangul3.el     latin-post.elc  thai.el
CCDOSPY.elc   TONEPY.el      hangul3.elc    latin-pre.el    thai.elc
CTLau-b5.el   TONEPY.elc     hanja-jis.el   latin-pre.elc   tibetan.el
CTLau-b5.elc  ZIRANMA.el     hanja-jis.elc  lrt.el          tibetan.elc
CTLau.el      ZIRANMA.elc    hanja.el       lrt.elc         tsang-b5.el
CTLau.elc     ZOZY.el        hanja.elc      py-punct.el     tsang-b5.elc
ECDICT.el     ZOZY.elc       hanja3.el      py-punct.elc    tsang-cns.el
ECDICT.elc    croatian.el    hanja3.elc     pypunct-b5.el   tsang-cns.elc
ETZY.el       croatian.elc   hebrew.el      pypunct-b5.elc  uni-input.el
ETZY.elc      cyril-jis.el   hebrew.elc     quick-b5.el     uni-input.elc
PY-b5.el      cyril-jis.elc  indian.el      quick-b5.elc    viqr.el
PY-b5.elc     cyrillic.el    indian.elc     quick-cns.el    viqr.elc
PY.el         cyrillic.elc   ipa.el         quick-cns.elc   vntelex.el
PY.elc        czech.el       ipa.elc        rfc1345.el      vntelex.elc
Punct-b5.el   czech.elc      japanese.el    rfc1345.elc     welsh.el
Punct-b5.elc  ethiopic.el    japanese.elc   sgml-input.el   welsh.elc
Punct.el      ethiopic.elc   lao.el         sgml-input.elc
Punct.elc     georgian.el    lao.elc        sisheng.el
QJ-b5.el      georgian.elc   latin-alt.el   sisheng.elc

and the startup-el file test for the existence of leim-list.el.

LE> I have read online that it seems to be some sort of language file
LE> that maybe we don't even need?

It  is  a  package  that  manages input  in  different  language  with
non iso-8859-1[5] letters in their alphabet.

-- 
 /\            ___
/___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________
  //--\ | | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico  
\/		    e allevatore di bug da competizione