Re: jed in a pipe :-)

[Marc Haber <mh+jed-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:18:02AM -0400, John E. Davis wrote:
> If xargs had an option such as "--ignore-sigint", then this would not
> be a problem.  For this reason, I never use xargs and use jed in this
> way:
> 
>    ls | jed --stdin-files
> 
> where I have in my .jedrc file:
> 
> define stdin_files ()
> {
>    variable file;
> 
>    !if (bufferp ("*stdin*"))
>      return;
> 
>    setbuf ("*stdin*");
>    bob ();
> 
>    do
>      {
>         file = line_as_string ();
>         if (strlen (file))
>           {
>              () = find_file (file);
>              setbuf ("*stdin*");
>           }
>      }
>    while (down_1 ());
> }

Would it be possible to adapt that function so that it doesn't belch
if fed names of directories and probably only acts on plain files?

Greetings
Marc

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