Why can't I use xargs emacs?

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From: Adam Funk
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22

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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


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