From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: emacs[client] --dired filenames Date: 05 Jun 2002 10:18:43 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023265287 19121 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 08:21:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17FW2p-0004yI-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:21:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FW2U-0002sw-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 04:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FW12-0002oG-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 04:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17FW11-0003DS-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:19:35 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 17FW11-00052i-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:19:35 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 17FW10-0007QB-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:19:34 +0200 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1023265174 04 28107 vMX1bL3GS+A5El 020605 08:19:34 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1808 jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes: > $ man emacsclient > No manual entry for emacsclient > ok, anyway > $ emacsclient --help > Usage: emacsclient [-a ALTERNATE-EDITOR] [-n] [--no-wait] [+LINE[:COLUMN]] FILENAME > Or emacsclient --version > > -n etc. not explained here. --help not mentioned. No tip on how to > see Info page "(emacs)Emacs Server" > > BTW, I wanted to do > $ emacsclient a001\* > to get a dired listing of matching files matching a001* ... but no, no > can do. Therefore I propose > $ emacsclient -d filenames > $ emacsclient --dired filenames > do like (dired "a001*" nil) > Also, * or would work, no need for \* ... It is high time that the GNU Emacs distribution included gnuclient. A no-brainer using that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de