Re: eshell - editing files

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> 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.
> | It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
> | If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
> | use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
> | `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type.  It may be necessary
> | to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well.
> | svn: system('emacs svn-prop.tmp') returned 256
> `----
>
>

What you want to do is setup svn to use emacs as the editor via
emacscleint. You can either do this in svn config files or you can set
your shell EDITOR variable to emacsclient. 

tim

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