From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:37:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-97894A.19370112072013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a9lrvbyk.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se
In article <87a9lrvbyk.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>,
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > I think he meant "LAST file".
>
> Aha! Haha, fun mistake!
>
> > emacs $(ls *.txt *.c | tac)
> >
> > If your OS doesn't have "tac", try "rev".
>
> Caution: People tend to put a lot of creative stuff in their `ls'
> aliases. And, `tac' and `rev' are not the same. Just try
>
> echo hello | tac
>
> and
>
> echo hello | rev
Oops.
My machine (Mac OS X 10.6.8) doesn't have 'tac'. Looks like the
substitute here is 'tail -r'.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-12 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 14:15 How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time? Chris Seberino
2013-07-12 14:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-12 16:27 ` Barry Margolin
2013-07-12 19:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-12 23:37 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-07-13 16:46 ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-13 20:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-16 13:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-07-12 19:04 ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-12 20:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-12 20:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.965.1373659534.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-13 15:47 ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-13 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-12 18:34 ` Chris Seberino
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