On 29.09.06, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: jed
> Version: 0.99.18-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> When using jed as the last element of a xargs pipe, such as
> grep -l foo /some/path | xargs jed
> to edit a lot of files containing some string, jed sometimes gets
> confused. If one later decides to abort a jed command by typing
> Ctrl-G, jed terminates silently and drops the user back to the shell.
> Nothing is saved, and the terminal stays in a strange mode.

Also strange is, that a buffer *stdin* is opened alongside the listed files.

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While we need upstream help and more testing to fix this, two workarounds
are at hand:

Either use

  jed `grep -l foo /some/path`
 
or install the jed-extra package and use the grep() command from within jed.


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