From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:51:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcobpg7mc1g.fsf@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p4em37xiau.ln2@news.ducksburg.com
+ Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>:
> 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
$ find -name '*.txt' |xargs sh -c 'emacs -nw "$@" </dev/tty' -
(untested)
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-02 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 20:22 Why can't I use xargs emacs? Adam Funk
2010-02-02 21:14 ` 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 [this message]
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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