Re: emacs -nw hangs on redirect

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.3114.1067953597.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Victor Lesk <victorlesk@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi emacs,
>
>I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on a linux ix86.
>
>in bash, the command
>emacs -nw > out.txt
>hangs.
>
>(the command emacs  > out.txt works fine).
>
>Can you explain why/suggest a workaround?

What are you trying to accomplish?  Emacs expects its stdin and stdout to
be a video terminal or emulator that it can perform cursor control on.  It
doesn't make much sense to redirect its output to a file.

If you want to capture the output of Emacs, run it inside a "script"
session.

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