the Rolls Royce of pagers

the Rolls Royce of pagers

[Dan Jacobson]

Gentlemen, we were discussing how the mighty emacs can't do things
when more(1) can.  I have found some more.

$ echo A|emacs -nw
$ echo A|emacs -nw /dev/stdin
$ echo A|emacs -nw -
all give emacs: standard input is not a tty
$ echo A|emacs
$ echo A|emacs /dev/stdin
don't do much
$ echo A|emacs -
Option `-' is ambiguous

Yes, emacs was not perhaps designed to do these, but instead of
hemming and hawing, it could perhaps do something more acrobatic, just
in case one's supervisor is watching.

Maybe emacs should turn on View mode and become a expensive pager for
that buffer.

OK, maybe catering to these would mess up some general cases, so never
mind, over and out.
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Re: the Rolls Royce of pagers

[Thomas A. Horsley]

>all give emacs: standard input is not a tty

But you can easily pipe into a shell script which sends stdin to
a temp file then invokes gnuclient to tell emacs to edit that file.

I bet if you got really enthusiastic, you could even buffer up
stdin chunks and send them to emacs as they arrive to be appended
to the temp buffer...
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