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Article #4099Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
From: Adam Funk
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:18
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:18
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On 2010-02-02, Bit Twister wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000, Adam Funk wrote: >> 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 > > > Maybe it's the -nw switch. Try > find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs Yes, it works without -nw, but I'm often logged into an ssh server so it's faster to open emacs in the xterm. Anyway, the solution (posted by Thierry in gnu.emacs.help) turns out to be this: emacs -nw $(find . -name '*.txt') Thanks. -- ...the reason why so many professional artists drink a lot is not necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is simply that they can afford to, because they can normally take a large part of a day off to deal with the ravages. [Amis _On Drink_]
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