buffer - How to open file in Emacs via eshell?

Question

When in eshell is there a command for opening a file in another buffer?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4903060/how-to-open-file-in-emacs-via-eshell

Answer 1

You can call elisp functions directly. So to open a file, call find-file on the filename. Example:

~ $ ls
myfile
~ $ (find-file "myfile")

Parentheses and quotes are optional, so this works too:

~ $ find-file myfile