From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why can't I use xargs emacs? Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000 Organization: $CABAL Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265143333 1240 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2010 20:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 21:42:11 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 1NcPZa-0001SO-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:42:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcPZV-0005Gp-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:42:05 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: individual.net CXqfgnfSwO7InX4Gus4xvg183qZ+wVMuUeoyIRWCqXALXYXdOQ X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:9hJxiMlQepk8G//EUE505nqC0sk= sha1:ebAm7a9yPE62YBajKeje1uDDnsY= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16/mm/ao (Ubuntu Intrepid) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu comp.unix.shell:233689 gnu.emacs.help:176557 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:71627 Archived-At: 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]