Re: Optimal emacs shell for coding

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On 08/12/2008 03:02 PM Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
| Eli Zaretskii wrote:
|>> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:40:35 +0200
|>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
|>> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
|>>
|>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
|>>>> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:06:02 +0200
|>>>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
|>>>> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
|>>>>
|>>>> If you look carefully at the output you can see that what is not
|>>>> handled is the parameters to "ls". If you try "ls -1" it will work.
|>>> What "parameters to ls"?  "ls" was invoked without any parameters.
|>> If you from a shell do
|>>
|>>    ls | grep
|>>
|>> then normally ls implicitly gets the -1 parameter
|>
|> No, it doesn't.  Please try and see for yourself (I just did).
|
|
| We are miscommunicating. Exactly what are you saying?
|
| I am saying that if I from a shell outside of Emacs do
|
|   ls
|
| than I get several files listed on each row while the output from
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|   ls | grep some-file
|
| implies that ls got the implicit argument -1 when used in the pipe.

Lennart,

You're correct: ls followed by a pipe puts each file on a line by
itself... easily demonstrated by "ls|less", "ls|more", "ls|wc -l",
"ls|grep -E $", and others.

Weird, but true.



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