Questions tagged [shell]
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.
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call windows batch from shell
I'm trying to run QGIS from the command-line on Windows. QGIS provides a batch file for this, "C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.20.3\bin\qgis.bat". When I run this from within Emacs shell, the load ...
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clean weird characters from org source shell
When I run a shell command in Org I sometimes get back weird control characters:
#+begin_src sh :results output :session test
guix pull
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
:
: Updating channel 'guix' from Git ...
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How to read the shell environment variables?
I have the following command in my .emacs
(setq org-roam-directory
(concat (getenv "BASEDIR") "/data/org-roam/"))
The purpose is to the set the directory for org-roam (but ...
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Use basename of the file
When I am done editing myfile.tex, I M-x shell-command RET. At the prompt, I manually enter pandoc -s myfile.tex -o myfile.org.
What command will save me the trouble of having to type out the myfile ...
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Automatically change encoding of process buffers
Platform
Windows 10 with GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32).
Goal
To set the encoding of process buffers to UTF-8.
I would like to set the input and output encoding of process buffers, like ...
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How to pass a string argument to a function from global-set-key definition inside .emacs
Inside my .emacs file I have these two functions:
(defun bh/switch-to-vs ()
(interactive)
(universal-argument)
(shell "*vs*"))
(defun bh/switch-to-android ()
(interactive)
(...
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emacs 28.0.50 `sh-quoted-exec` has different coloring for `sh` and `bash`
In Shell-script[bash] mode, coloring differs for sh-quoted-exec in #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash.
If #!/bin/sh is the first line: // I prefert this
If #!/bin/bash is the first line:
Would it be possible ...
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How to create shell aliases in Emacs [GUI] in Windows?
In Linux this can be done by something like:
alias cdwww="cd /srv/www"
In Windows there is an equivalent command called DOSKEY, used for example like this:
doskey ls=dir $*
The above works ...
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Two prompt lines using emacs shell and plink
I am using emacs M-x shell command to create a shell, and from this shell I connect to a remote machine by using plink (PuTTY on windows).
I have a problem with the prompt being presented twice. I ...
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How to define global keybinding for `C-c >` and `C-c <` using defhydra
I am trying to apply following solutions's keybinding to overwrite all mode's keybindings for C-c > and C-c <.
From the answer for Can we do C-c > and > and > to continue indentation:
(...
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How to "pipe" a string to a shell command in elisp rather than give it as an arg?
The command I'm trying to duplicate:
curl https://example.com | readability https://example.com
As far as I can see, though, using that | pipe is NOT the same as passing the string in as an arg. If I ...
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How to use nvm with spacemacs?
How can I use nvm with spacemacs?
I want to be able to access nvm from any shell in spacemacs. I have installed nvm and it works with no problem from the terminal. When I open some shells in ...
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From an org item, launch a shell command with the item text as parameter
From an org list item, I want a function that I can bind to a shortkey or an org-speed shortcut, to be able to launch a shell command with the org list item text as parameter. Then I want to add tag ...
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How to run shell scripts at startup of Emacs/EXWM?
I have configurations I would generally run on the startup of DWM. Now, I would like to do the same with EXWM/Emacs.
Is there any Elispian way to do it?
EDIT: arrived in conjunction with @lawlist
OBS: ...
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How to write the result of running an external command to a scratch buffer?
I'm running this ex command in evil mode:
:%!grep -E "^\#"
how can I write the result to some arbitrary buffer, instead of replacing the content of the current buffer?
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Specify which emacs to open for a file when running shell inside emacs
Consider a scenario
I run an emacs instance E01, and use the shell inside emacs to find the file I want to open;
I found the file file using this shell. Now I'm ready to open it through the shell ...
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Interactive terminal solution for Emacs on Windows?
I recently tried to move from over to Emacs but hit a brick wall while trying to setup a terminal. While shell and eshell work fine, they are not really interactive so you can't really run things such ...
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Custom compilation command fails on Windows due to slashes in paths
when i type on "shell":
c:\Users\TR\Desktop\emacs-27.2-x86_64\bin\GAMES\game3>love .
works fine but when i put
(defun insert-file-name ()
(interactive)
(let ((compilation-ask-about-...
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Tramp with Dired produces unwanted //DIRED// line
Connected via Tramp to an old remote system, when I list a
directory using Dired, I get:
/plink:user@example.com:/tmp:
total used in directory 549 available 114.7 MiB
drwxrwxrwt 3 root ...
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How to get the PATH from the SHELL
When launched at system start-up, the Emacs daemon doesn't pick up modifications to the PATH introduced by shell initialization scripts.
Emacswiki suggests to use this function to update Emacs' PATH,
(...
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Despite commands working in Emacs shell or "M-!, still getting permission denied
I have Emacs 27.1 on Windows 10 using MSYS2 bash. I can successfully run bash from M-x shell:
# echo $0
/usr/bin/bash
Also, I can successfully run commands from `M-!". But some commands still ...
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Edit matlab code with emacs matlab-mode
I recently installed Emacs and I'm trying to configure it in a useful way. However, I'm finding really hard to correctly set up matlab-mode, which should provide autocompletion and linting.
I noticed ...
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pipe result of elisp function to a shell command
I wanna pipe the output of an elisp function (emacs-version) to a shell command (xclip). How can I do this?
I accept vanilla emacs and evil solutions.
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How to make emacs shell the same as system terminal experience?
On macOS, using iTerm2. It looks like
In Emacs For Mac OS X, it looks like
I copied system's ~/.zshrc file to ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile, but doesn't they read configrations when start emacs?
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Launch an external command prompt (cmd.exe) in a specific folder [duplicate]
I'm trying to build a cmd interactive function in Emacs, which would open a Windows command prompt - exactly like Win+R cmd does. Within Emacs, it would be accessible with M-x cmd, and it would open ...
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How to use doom emacs as a golang ide quickly?
I installed the newest doom emacs on macOS. Also configed language packages as
$ emacs ~/.doom.d/init.el
:lang
(go +lsp)
:tools
lsp
$ ~/.emacs.d/bin/doom sync
When I open a .go file, the code became ...
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Repeating characters in `python-mode.el` shell interaction
I experience strange behaviour when using python-mode. When sending characters to the shell using C-c C-e, the first string works well. After that, the characters start repeating, in a manner that is ...
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Unexpected local shell in TRAMP mode
I have a clear installation of spacemacs with layer shell on.
I open remote dir SPC f f ssh:<host>:<path>
I open shell SPC '
Shell is local (I expect it to be opened on the remote host)
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How do I make compilation use vterm instead of the default shell it is using?
I am running M-x compile commands in my Projectile projects. I would like to use vterm for running them as the compilations are getting very slow because the project is very large.
How do I make ...
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How to send keyboard interrupt to running program in shell mode?
I wish to achieve what a C-c (send a keyboardinterrupt) would do in a terminal outside of Emacs. How do I do that in Emacs shell mode?
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Emacs unable to execute shell commands despite them being in the Emacs shell PATH
I am on Ubuntu. I'm trying to run the latex command to run in the Emacs shell. I have done some research, and have already done the following:
I noticed that running env in the Emacs shell gave a ...
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What is causing Emacs remote shell to be slow on completion?
So basically I am doing the following:
Opening a dired buffer with tramp on a remote.
Opening a shell on the remote (M-x shell)
Then if I try for example to type any command such as ls -la the ...
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How to run shell command in function and intercept standard output
Tell me how to use the trans command of the trans-shell package for
translation. I need to write a function that will intercept the output
translated text.
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emacs opens py file as sh file
Emacs has opened a py file as a shell script. What went wrong and how to change?
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How can I move the cursor from a shell window to another window in Evil mode?
Imagine I have following four windows in Emacs:
Window 1 is a shell window (M-x shell). Windows 2, 3, and 4 are normal windows with files open. Evil mode is enabled.
If I am the shell window, how can ...
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Run an external shell command to mutate text
I would like to run par or fmt to format my .md file.
In vim this would be %!fmt (for the whole buffer) or 13,16!fmt (for line 13 - line 16).
What's the "emacs way" to achieve something like ...
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How to print colorful and bold string in the mini-buffer
When I do echo "\033[1;31mThis is bold red text\033[0m" it should print This is bold red text as red and bold. When I try it in the emacs's shell it prints it as it is instead showing the ...
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Can desktop sessions be used to save and restore shell buffers?
Is it possible to use desktop-save-mode to save and partially restore my shell buffers? I realize shell buffers have quite a bit of state that isn't under the direct control of emacs, so specifically ...
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Elisp - Changing directory in shell buffer
I want to open an instance of a terminal emulator (in my case term) and go to a specific directory, all with a single Elisp function. My idea was to send a specific string programmatically to the ...
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/bin/top not found in eshell over ssh
How does eshell resolve its PATH?
If I run my top in eshell on my local machine, it opens a new buffer and shows the output of the command in it. However, if I do the same on an eshell run on a remote ...
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How to not let a shell to capture the space key in Spacemacs?
In spacemacs, the space key is used to trigger the command shortcut, and an extra space can lead to a input/search of emacs command.
Now I run into this situation:
I use SPC b n to switch to next ...
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how can I run conda in emacs shell?
I've been using Python command 'conda' in the terminal on my Mac. But when I run a command like 'conda activate ...' in Emacs's shell (M-x shell), it gives me this objection:
CommandNotFoundError: ...
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Run latexmk inside z shell instead of shell
Problem
I am using latexkm to compile .tex documents, and recently I got this error while compiling:
Running `latexmk' on `AF2021_serie5' with ``latexmk -bibtex-cond -pdf -synctex=1 AF2021_serie5''
Rc ...
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Dealing with unwanted output
If you used shell-mode for a while, you probably ran into situation where there's a process spitting lots of output very fast, so that C-g and C-c C-c don't really help.
One way I found to be somewhat ...
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Can I format the arguments in a table and provide the rows to a shell block as arguments?
In org-mode, is possible to provide arguments formatted as a table to a shell block?
E.g.
argument
|a|b|
|c|d|
shell script
echo $a
expected results
a b
c d
Basically, I want org-mode to read the ...
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org-babel: zsh sessions use bash
#+BEGIN_SRC zsh :session z1
echo $HOME $0
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
: /Users/evar /bin/bash
I am thinking of trying the workaround outlined here, but shouldn't this work out of the box?
Update: I couldn'...
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Org Src Block does not return any output
TL;DR: How do I get the stderr of my source block to be part of the #+RESULTS block, without changing the contents of the block? I can only get stdout to appear.
[Long and winding explanation]
While ...
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Starting a shell then cd to a specific directory
I want to go to a specific directory after I start a shell. So I put these lines in my .emacs file:
(shell)
(shell-command "cd C:/MyStartUp/ThisDirectory")
(setq default-directory "C:/...
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is there a way to make compile shell process happen in eshell / "real" shell?
i wanted to bind a key to a compile and run command, then i found this post, Compile and run single file c++ programs in Emacs[SOLVED]
( last answer)
It works perfectly fine and as intended.
The only ...
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Fixed length buffer for shell
I launch a shell in my session with M-x shell and then I launch a python script that produces a lot of output to stdout---so many lines of output that my emacs session beomes quite slow.
Is there a ...
