Questions relating to commands for passing single command lines to shell sub-processes, running a shell interactively with input and output to an Emacs buffer, and for running a shell in a terminal emulator window.
Questions tagged [shell]
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Weird shell output when using IPython 5
I just upgraded to the latest version of IPython and now something is wrong when using it in emacs.
When using it in a regular terminal it works fine (colors, tab-completion, etc.), however either in M-x eshell or M-x shell, instead of outputing In…
Literal
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What are all the ways of launching a shell from inside emacs and what are their various properties?
I know of at least four possibilities:
eshell
term
ansi-term
shell
What's the complete list of tools built-in to emacs to launch a shell, and what benefits and drawbacks do they offer?
Trevoke
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How can I run an async process in the background without popping up a buffer?
I have defined some functions to run async background process using async-shell-command in my .emacs, but everytime I run the commands a new window (not frame) is created and the process' buffer is shown there. How could I run the command without…
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Emacs and command line $PATH disagreements on OSX
Having some issues with PATH settings on Emacs that are affecting my Haskell environment:
I'm using ZSH, and when I go to the command line and call echo $PATH, it returns:…
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Tramp mode is much slower than using terminal to ssh
I am using the Macports flavor of Emacs on OSX Yosemite, and have looked through every thread here on Tramp being slow without any solution.
Tramp is usable, but there is about a 100ms delay between every action. It's not a problem on the server's…
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How i can open shell in current buffer?
In function "shell" this line display shell buffer and almost always its open new shell in random frame. And I have to swap the buffers, it's annoying.
...
(pop-to-buffer buffer)
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In docs says:
If that window is on a different graphical frame,…
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Git Bash in emacs on Windows
I can run the Bash shell that comes with Git for Windows. I put this in my .emacs:
(defun git-bash () (interactive)
(let ((explicit-shell-file-name "D:/Program Files/git/bin/bash"))
(call-interactively 'shell)))
Then M-x git-bash and voila,…
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How to prevent backspace from deleting my shell prompt?
It is a usual shell display:
ME@mycomputer: ~$ echo
When I do backspace several times It becomes:
ME@mycompu
How to prevent the system word from deleting
tom
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.bash_profile or .bashrc for shell in emacs?
I wrote an alias for a huge command and stored it in .bash_profile and to my surprise, emacs didn't pick up the alias that I wrote in .bash_profile. After some searching in the internet, I created a .bashrc file in my $HOME with the alias command…
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how to name buffers (*shell*)
I'm interested in naming Emacs buffers. In particular I'd like to give names to shell buffers that I've started. That way I can easily tell them apart when switching buffers.
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Attach to running remote shell with eshell/TRAMP/dtach
I often use GNU Screen to keep remote sessions alive. Since I live in Emacs, I'd really like to be able to resume a running remote shell session from within Emacs.
GNU Screen implements all sorts of fancy things like terminal multiplexing and…
user2005
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How to prevent Emacs from showing passphrase in `M-x shell`?
I tried using attic with a passphrase to backup my files from inside M-x shell. The shell exposed the passphrase as plain text in the buffer and made it available by typing M-r as well as by looking through the shell input history with C-c C-l.
When…
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Is it possible to read user input from STDIN while tangling a source block?
Is it possible to read user input from STDIN while tangling a source block with org-babel-tangle?
I am aware of this: Org Mode Babel - Interactive code block evaluation.
That doesn't help solve this particular use-case, as it still doesn't allow…
gsl
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How do I prevent one subprocess from starving others?
To be clear, I'm not talking about anything that should require emacs to be multithreaded (though that would probably also solve this). To reproduce:
emacs -Q # I'm running 24.4.1
Make a second frame
Switch back to first frame
M-x shell
M-x…
Joseph Garvin
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How to make shell-command run using shell profile and current directory hooks (ex. direnv)
I am trying to get shell-command and async-shell-command to integrate seamlessly with a couple of programs in my .bashrc file, specifically direnv in this example.
I found that if I customized shell-command-switch, I could get shell processes to…
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