Re: Optimal emacs shell for coding

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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

  ls | grep some-file

implies that ls got the implicit argument -1 when used in the pipe.