Increasing the maximum length of the argument list.

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On 3/31/07, Glenn Meyer <grmeyer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> I just joined this list, and will start with three questions:
>
> First, how do I search the archives?

google works fine for me.

> Second, is there a similar group with a better interface?

Better is subjective, I'm not sure what you are looking for. Possibly
a list more in line with the subject matter would be better, maybe the
gnu emacs list?

> Third, and the reason I joined this list, is there any way to increase
> the limit on the size of the argument list. I need an especially long
> list for etags, and the program doesn't create a correct TAGS file when
> I pipe the files list through xargs, at least, not one that emacs can
> handle.

Piping the filenames into etags on stdin is the usual way around this
problem I think.

John