Questions tagged [process]
A process is a running instance of a program. Use this tag for how Emacs interacts with programs that it runs (compilers, viewers, network backends, etc.)
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How to use Emacs to prevent screen lock from activating (Windows)
My employer has a pretty paranoid screen locking policy on Windows machines. There's no way to override the time settings for the lock. My colleagues an I have been experimenting with various homebrew ...
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How to start a process with multiple arguments?
Instead running sudo su joe -s prime-run firefox in the shell I'd rather bind it to a key.
Yet, nothing happens on pressing M-n (while M-i works).
What am I doing wrong?
(setq exwm-input-global-keys
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Bizarre behaviour using `call-process': cabal fails as if it is in wrong directory, but succeeds with 'cd ./ ; cabal'
I'm trying to get haskell-mode working on Windows but something funny is happening and I've traced my problems using Edebug into the bowels of emacs:
Can someone explain the following strange ...
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How can I re-enable `C-z` in evil mode (to pause Emacs)?
I have been using Emacs for a while and recently started using evil mode. I exclusively use emacs-nox (command line emacs).
The only thing that's missing for me is C-z to pause emacs and bring me back ...
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Finitizing infinite comint output
Context
I'm a teacher and I often want to show “bad” programs; in this case infinite outputting programs.
But while I want to show the bad I dont want my laptop crashing in class (nowadays on zoom)
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Process sentinels don't run during init in GUI Emacs
Ok, this issue I'm running into seems pretty weird. I'm running an async process during init and I have set a process sentinel to tell me when it exits. This works fine in terminal Emacs but in GUI ...
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Start Process Not Working: Process List Claims Process Started but Process UI not shown
Start Process is not working when starting GUI application in WSL on Windows 10 Pro.
I am calling Start Process as follows.
(start-process
"yekneb-exec-2" nil
"/mnt/c/WINDOWS/explorer....
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Why does calling `term-send-backspace` (just pressing backspace) create a newline in the `*terminal*` buffer in `term-mode`?
Specs:
i@debord:~$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 26.3.50
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
under the ...
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Process shell exited abnormally with code 53 on windows 10
I'm using emacs 26.2 installed through msys2.
Recently starting subprocesses from emacs has stopped working for me. Specifically M-x shell and shell-command-to-string.
I get the feeling this is due to ...
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Is it possible to control DTR and/or RTS for a serial process (serial-term)?
I create a serial port process with (serial-term), or the underlying (make-serial-process ...). Is it possible to control the DTR and/or RTS pins for the port from within Emacs?
Looking at the source ...
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Can emacs control other programs windows?
I am using start-process to start other programs as part of my workflow. For example starting a browser to display the HTML file I am working on, or Visual Studio to debug the EXE I just compiled.
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Elpy: how to stop the underlying RPC process?
Whenever elpy-mode is activated upon visiting a python file, I see a py.exe executable start, with a subtree of processes. This should be the remote procedure call (thanks @al0 for the explanation). ...
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How to pipe data through multiple processes?
Currently I'm generating text from a command, eg:
(with-temp-buffer
(call-process "my-command" nil t nil "my" "args")
;; operate on output in current buffer.
)
How can I use pipes, something ...
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How does one debug errors in a process filter, (setq debug-on-error t) does not pop up a *Backtrace*?
With annoying frequency I get errors in my *Messages* buffer that seem to come from process-filters however, I never get a *Backtrace* for them. So, I have to play around and do similar experiments ...
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Get process id for the Emacs own process
I'm supporting some elisp code that creates a temporary filename using a prefix and the user id. When I develop this, that is not enough since I will be running multiple instances concurrently.
So I'...
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Send a command to Emacs from an inferior process
Is it possible to send a command to Emacs from an inferior process? For my particular use-case, I would like to instruct Emacs to run the command inferior-ess-r-reload-hook (part of the ESS package) ...
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Clojure nrepl: 'cider-jack-in returns error: “Spawning child process: Invalid argument”
Running GNUEmacs 26.3 on Windows 10, trying to set up environment per instructions for 'Clojure for the Brave and True' from here:
https://github.com/flyingmachine/emacs-for-clojure/
I was able to ...
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how can I change the inferior Python process
I would like to be able to start Python 3 and ipython from Emacs in an inferior mode buffer. Currently start interpreter C-c C-p starts 2.7.
I know there must be a way to change to start another ...
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How can I query Emacs from a separate process?
I'm interested in tracking how I spend my time at work. I have been using ManicTime, and it does much of what I want.
However, I use Emacs as my primary editor, and ManicTime doesn't know how to get ...
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Troubleshooting a hanging `list-processes`
Normally I'd use M-x list-processes to see what Emacs is running in the background. But in this case list-processes itself hangs. What is the right thing to do in this situation?
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Is variable assignment an atomic operation in elisp?
I have a situation in a mode I'm writing that saves a portion of the output of a long-running asynchronous process to a variable at intermittent intervals. I need to access this data periodically. My ...
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Lexical binding in a process filter
The code constantly prints server-process: nil instead of the server process name:
-*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
(let* ((port 1234)
(server-process 'something))
(setq server-process
(...
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“call-process” hangs and does not launch the program
I’m dipping my toes into reading news with Gnus. I’d like to continue using the same editor as before for composing posts, so I put these forms in my gnus.el:
(setq message-tab-body-function 'edit-in-...
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How can I tell when non-interactive bash process is done executing a command?
I'm trying to write a different shell command line interface where the input line stays at the top. Output of previous commands should stack below:
> INPUT LINE
LAST OUTPUT (of command 1)
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How to determine which program is running inside an emacs shell buffer?
I have an emacs shell buffer which may or may not be running a certain interactive program such as ftp or python. I wish to write a lisp function which will interact with this program, but I would ...
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How can I make multiple calls to external binaries?
I want to write an interactive function to
Call an external binary
Write the output of the binary into a buffer
Process the buffer to extracts args for next call
Call another external binary using ...
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Send content of region or current line to a tmp file, then execute shell script with filename as argument
I am transitioning to Emacs with evil-mode after years of Vim. For work reasons I have to use a GUI statistics program (Stata) frequently. This program does not integrate well with external editors. ...
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Replacement for the sit-for function
Using currently the sit-for function, every time i hit any key and cause user input the sit-for will stop. Is there any possibility to have something like sit-for, while being able to move the cursor ...
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How to create shortcut that will kill process for buffer with fixed name
I have code like this to run R command from Emacs:
(defun call-r-command (command-list)
"run R command in shell buffer window
if there is displayed buffer that have shell it will use that window"...
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How to partially block user input while Emacs subprocess is running
I have a custom function that updates the etags file before prompting the user to input a desired tag to be located. Although I am pretty good about setting the current buffer to read-only before ...
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Launch ncurses application and cleanup once it exits
I'd like to occasionally use hg split and hg commit --interactive from Emacs, but those commands bring up a GUI. At the moment I either use a separate terminal or ansi-term for those, but would like ...
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How to kill a running process in compilation buffer in MS Windows?
I have tried using M-x kill-compilation and it doesn't kill the process (on Microsoft Windows). It just sends ^C, which makes my script to retry.
When I try to M-x kill-buffer on the compilation ...
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Emacs report a process which does not exist
When start Emacs from the terminal as
me@mbp: ~$ emacs --deamon
It prompts that
However, there does not exist such a pocesses
me@mbp~$ ps 8559
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
me@mbp:~$ ps -el ...
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Open another emacs and cause conflicts
I have a GUI emacs running as the major working area,
When I reading articles from web, need to open a emacs as a tool to keep note;
Web on the left and new emacs on the right,
Usually, get ...
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Unknown *emacs* process
I recently realized that every time I lunch emacs, after a minute, a strange buffer appear in buffers list that is linked to an emacs process, infact it also appear in system's process list:
When I ...
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How to make process in compilation-mode think it's not running in interactive terminal?
I use minitest-mode which starts Ruby tests in compilation-mode:
(compilation-start
actual-command
'minitest-compilation-mode
(lambda (arg) (minitest-buffer-name (or file-name ""))))
Tests invoke ...
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External process hangs
I have written a simple Python 3 script:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
print('Hello world!')
The script works from the shell:
$ ./hello-world
Hello world!
Then, I have written some Lisp to run the ...
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Why does :command argument of make-process not work when string passed as a variable? [duplicate]
This works fine:
(make-process :name "my-proc2"
:buffer " *my-proc2*"
:command '("sh" "-c" "echo \"hi\"\nsleep 10\necho \"there\"")
:connection-type 'pipe
:...
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Kill inferior python in python.el mode
At the moment I am killing the Python interpreter with C-d each time I want to quit Python interpreter.
What is the name of the function to kill the Python interpreter in Python mode (the one which ...
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Inconsistent point in an elisp program and in a visible non-focused process buffer
I am able to collect output data from a process, but I don't understand the
coordination of point and process-mark. In particular, the visible cursor in
a non-selected window visiting the buffer does ...
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Asynchrony when collecting output in a process buffer?
I want to capture output from a process buffer. This is not a duplicate of How do I reliably get output from a process? because that questioner is presupposing comint and an architecture for a ...
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shell command on region with process substitution
If I want to execute a shell command on a region I know I can use
shell-command-on-region via M-|, what if the command I want to
redirect my selection does not accept redirection to it's standard ...
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How Can I Prevent make-process from failing if the default-directory doesn't exist?
Usually, when you open a file, Emacs prompts you to run M-x make-directory RET RET if the directory doesn't exist.
However, after writing my own advice, I realized that opening files in directories ...
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Differences between cmdproxy.exe and cmd.exe
What is the difference between:
(call-process "cmdproxy" nil "foo" nil "/c" "dir")
(call-process "cmd" nil "foo" nil "/c" "dir")
?
I seem to get exactly the same results in Emacs 25.1 on ...
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Run a process synchronously and obtain stdout and stderr in different buffers?
I'm using emacs version 25.1.1.
I would like to run a process synchronously and have its stdout and stderr end up in two different buffers. I know I can use make-process to separate stdout and stderr ...
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Set environment variables for spawned subprocesses
I would like to set the environment variables for a spawned subprocess only.
They are controlled by process-environment. The documentation says:
binding that variable with let is also reasonable ...
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What's the idiomatic way of writing an Emacs front-end to a command which supports streaming input and output like Telnet?
I would like to write an Emacs front-end to a server which supports Telnet connections, and I was wondering if there is an idiomatic way of doing this. Specifically, the program will work like this:
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Error in process filter
I am trying to play with the make-process function and get information from it. I am getting some errors in my process filter that I am having trouble understanding. When I run my ceedling-version ...
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How to get process name (or process) from PID in lisp?
I would like to check if my shell is running ssh or not by checking the process name. I tried to get the process name by:
(let* ((proc (get-process "shell")) (proc-child-id (process-running-child-p ...
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Process input seems buggy in Emacs on OS X
I have a process that I'm trying to send input to on OS X. I'm using Emacs' builtin functions for doing this: process-send-string and process-send-region. However, it seems that there are issues when ...
