eless: Not able to pipe into eless

OS: MacOS 10.12.6 Shell: fish 2.5.0/bash 4.4.0(1)-release

 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  ls
CONTRIBUTING.org README.org       doc              eless.org
LICENSE.md       build            eless
 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  emacs --version
GNU Emacs 25.3.1
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  echo 'test' | ./eless -D
Eless Version f2eee31 (commit hash of current master~1)
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless/tree/master
DEBUG: --> Input from pipe/file
DEBUG:     Output to terminal -->
DEBUG: var : -D
DEBUG: Raw Args                       : -D
DEBUG: Emacs Args                     : -nw
DEBUG: Pipe Contents (up to 10 lines) : test
DEBUG: Temp File : emacs-stdin-rob.HJxNpaJ
--tmpdir
DEBUG: first_line_piped_data = test
usage: grep [-abcDEFGHhIiJLlmnOoqRSsUVvwxZ] [-A num] [-B num] [-C[num]]
	[-e pattern] [-f file] [--binary-files=value] [--color=when]
	[--context[=num]] [--directories=action] [--label] [--line-buffered]
	[--null] [pattern] [file ...]
usage: grep [-abcDEFGHhIiJLlmnOoqRSsUVvwxZ] [-A num] [-B num] [-C[num]]
	[-e pattern] [-f file] [--binary-files=value] [--color=when]
	[--context[=num]] [--directories=action] [--label] [--line-buffered]
	[--null] [pattern] [file ...]
usage: grep [-abcDEFGHhIiJLlmnOoqRSsUVvwxZ] [-A num] [-B num] [-C[num]]
	[-e pattern] [-f file] [--binary-files=value] [--color=when]
	[--context[=num]] [--directories=action] [--label] [--line-buffered]
	[--null] [pattern] [file ...]
DEBUG: No man page or info manual detected
DEBUG: Eless Command : emacs_Q_view_mode emacs-stdin-rob.HJxNpaJ
--tmpdir                          -nw                          --eval '(progn
                                   (set-visited-file-name nil)
                                   (rename-buffer "*Stdin*" :unique))'
DEBUG: Args passed to emacs_Q_view_mode : emacs-stdin-rob.HJxNpaJ

A GUI emacs opens without anything in it.

 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  ls
--tmpdir                         build                            emacs-stdin-rob.HJxNpaJ
CONTRIBUTING.org                 doc                              emacs-stdin-rob.HJxNpaJ?--tmpdir
LICENSE.md                       eless
README.org                       eless.org

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 20 (12 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Attempt to fix temp file generation on Mac OS https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless/issues/18 — committed to kaushalmodi/eless by kaushalmodi 6 years ago

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@mobyte0 Do you want to update to the latest master and try again?

kaushalmodi on Feb 13, 2018

I have successfully installed GNU grep on Homebrew and I’m on version 3.1. I would recommend listing the needed version of grep in the requirements.

While I’m not getting the grep errors anymore, the empty GUI emacs opens again.

 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  ls
CONTRIBUTING.org README.org       doc              eless.org
LICENSE.md       build            eless
 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  echo 'test' | ./eless -D
Eless Version f2eee31 (commit hash of current master~1)
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless/tree/master
DEBUG: --> Input from pipe/file
DEBUG:     Output to terminal -->
DEBUG: var : -D
DEBUG: Raw Args                       : -D
DEBUG: Emacs Args                     : -nw
DEBUG: Pipe Contents (up to 10 lines) : test
DEBUG: Temp File : emacs-stdin-rob.xLsUAB7
--tmpdir
DEBUG: first_line_piped_data = test
DEBUG: No man page or info manual detected
DEBUG: Eless Command : emacs_Q_view_mode emacs-stdin-rob.xLsUAB7
--tmpdir                          -nw                          --eval '(progn
                                   (set-visited-file-name nil)
                                   (rename-buffer "*Stdin*" :unique))'
DEBUG: Args passed to emacs_Q_view_mode : emacs-stdin-rob.xLsUAB7
 rob  ~/b/eless   master ±  ls
--tmpdir                         build                            emacs-stdin-rob.xLsUAB7
CONTRIBUTING.org                 doc                              emacs-stdin-rob.xLsUAB7?--tmpdir
LICENSE.md                       eless
README.org                       eless.org
 rob  ~/b/eless   master ± 

mobyte0 on Feb 13, 2018