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From: Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p4em37xiau.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> (raw)

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


-- 
Steve: Now, okay.  I did say that monkeys could program Visual Basic.
Leo:   But not that all Visual Basic programmers are monkeys.
Steve: Exactly.                                    [Security Now 194]


             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-02 20:22 Adam Funk [this message]
2010-02-02 21:14 ` Why can't I use xargs emacs? Bit Twister
2010-02-03 11:14   ` Andreas Röhler
2010-02-03 14:18   ` Adam Funk
2010-02-02 21:35 ` Bill Marcum
2010-02-03  7:23   ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]   ` <mailman.634.1265182143.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-03 14:21     ` Adam Funk
2010-02-06  7:45       ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-06 19:37         ` Adam Funk
2010-02-02 22:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-03  3:40   ` Ivan Shmakov
2010-02-02 22:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-02 23:51 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-02-03 14:12 ` hymie!
2010-02-03 14:20   ` Adam Funk
2010-02-03 16:19     ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]     ` <mailman.645.1265214302.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-03 21:15       ` Adam Funk
2010-02-04 12:08         ` Andreas Röhler
2010-02-11  3:19   ` David Combs

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