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- From: cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
- Subject: Re: Emacs 2.1 (Re: How to get an emacs META key?)
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- Reply-To: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:10:48 GMT
- References: <HARDY.92Jul24102914@golem.ps.uci.edu>
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- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy) writes
- > Otto J. Makela writes:
- > ? Just a silly question. Is it possible to specify a filename on the
- > ? "Emacs" command line like it is with normal emacs ?
- > You can but it won't read the file into the buffer (Emacs just
- > launches the front end, which in turn calls emacs but does not seem to
- > pass along arguments). Once you get used to the fact
- > thatmouse-selected regions are not highlighted (as in emacs running
- > under X), it certainly beats using emacs in a terminal window.
-
- Well, you shouldn't ever launch a NeXTstep application directly from the
- command line. Instead use open(1) from the command line to use the window
- server to do it.
-
- Some time ago I hacked my version of Emacs to (among other things) accept the
- openFile message. This allows you to open files in a running Emacs with 'open
- -a Emacs <filename>' or even to set the Workspace DefaultOpenApp to Emacs so
- that you can just double click on any file and it will come up in Emacs instead
- of Edit.
-
- Carl Edman
-