From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:23:52 +0100 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <873a1iye7r.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265182178 6869 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2010 07:29:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:29:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 08:29:35 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 1NcZg3-0007NO-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:29:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcZg2-0000Ln-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NcZfZ-0000LR-Nn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54999 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcZfY-0000Kq-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NcZfX-0008I1-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48822) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NcZfX-0008Hn-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcZfV-00074B-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:28:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b/qSHWyO/4y4y5wP6xarboHdn5s= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:71643 Archived-At: Why not a simple: emacs -nw -Q $(find . -name '*.txt') Why do you want to use xargs? Bill Marcum writes: > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.shell.] > On 2010-02-02, Adam Funk wrote: >> The emacs command can take a list of filename arguments, so why can't >> I get xargs to work with it? >> >> $ find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs -nw >> emacs: standard input is not a tty >> >> $ grep -rl 'foo' some/path |xargs emacs -nw >> emacs: standard input is not a tty >> > It says: standard input is not a tty. I don't normally use emacs, so there > may be a better way to do this, but you could write a function: > my_emacs () { emacs "$@" &0 2>&0 ; } > > -- Thierry Volpiatto