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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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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Emacs gives `stty: 'standard input': Inappropriate ioctl for device` in ZSH shell
I am running emacs inside ZSH shell. I have current lines in .zshrc file, which I believe affects the emacs behavior it is using shell within:
stty eof undef
stty sane && stty erase "^H&...
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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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Emacs PNG as a text showing freezes
I am trying to see image as a text but when I compile this program in Emacs it freezes.
Is the problem in Emacs when showing images as text? My Python code is right below.
import requests as req
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How to get rvm to work with projectile-compile-project and shell-command (Emacs macOS GUI)
I'm using the exec-path-from-shell package to copy my environment variables, including PATH. But shell-command (M-! which ruby RET) only finds the system ruby, not my user-local rvm ruby.
Similarly, ...
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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 ...
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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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M-x compile hangs with WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
I have been using M-x compile for ages. Lately (our sysadmin has updated many things) it hangs after giving this message: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN). Pressing return ...
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Python : name '__file__' is not defined
So as you can see, in my terminal, I was able to execute the file without error, but once I tried from the python shell, whether in the terminal or the one integrated in Emacs, there is an error, it ...
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Using extended glob quantifiers break Zsh mode indenting and highlight
This is a small issue, but annoying to deal with. Suppose I have the following function:
function zicompinit_fast () {
setopt extended_glob local_options
autoload -Uz compinit
local zcompf="...
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Execute a command from a buffer
Say, you create a new buffer (Fundamental), type a shell command and want it executed. Like you can do in a *scratch* buffer with lisp code (C-x C-e). Or you have a text file, that has text ...
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How could I see the output of my Python code in the echo area?
When I press C-c C-c(python-shell-send-buffer), I get output shown below. Afterwards when I do the same operation (C-c C-c) I always see Sent: #!/usr/bin/env python3... in the echo area.
I just want ...
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Emacs shell isn't opening correctly
I have just installed Emacs, but when I try to open the shell, this error comes up:
emacs: /usr/bin/fish: No such file or directory
Process shell exited abnormally with code 127
I used to have fish ...
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How to pass arguments to a shell script using `make-process` function?
Consider a script file: ~/project/script.sh
echo "arg 1 $1"
echo "arg 2 $2"
echo "arg 3 $3"
And elisp file that invokes it using make-process: ~/project/special-mode/special-mode.el
(let* ((...
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sage-shell-mode repeat the input in the output
I wanted to use sagemath straight in emacs instead of having a terminal open. I tried to use a shell (or eshell for that matters) in emacs and launch sage there, but every time I input a command, the ...
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Virtual environment management for python.el without changing the general PATH variable in Emacs
I try to use virtualenvwrapper.el with the build-in python.el and my virtual environments in a ./.venv directory inside each project.
Because all virtual envs have the same name .venv I cannot make a ...
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How to disable interpretation of !! in the shell-mode history feature?
If I open a shell buffer with M-x "shell", !! is replaced with the previous command when added to the history, even when not in a shell context e.g. in a python REPL, and even if the replace does not ...
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Unable to create a new commit using Magit on Windows
trying to commit using "M-x magit-status" followed by "c c", keep getting the following:
1 git.exe … "commit" "--"
Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
sh -c 'printf WITH-EDITOR:: $$: No such ...
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Opening a Remote Shell Renames Buffer Open to \*shell\*
here is a simple elisp program for opening a shell in a named buffer:
(defun shell-make (dir buffer-name)
(let* ((default-directory dir)
(buffer (get-buffer-create buffer-name)))
(set-...
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How to use arrow keys to select a menu item from an emacs shell buffer
It is getting more and more common for clis to have little embedded menus (for example the Ionic cli does this, but so do many others) which you navigate with the arrow keys.
Please select the ...
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How to fix docker command prompt
When I start emacs -q and run M-x shell there is formatting error when connecting to docker container as follows,
$ docker container exec -it ...
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tramp — open shell prompt for existing connection
i started using the eldritch and mysterious tramp again because a user on here helped me fix it. (thanks michael: tramp runs on odt export --).
i create org mode links to my commonly-used remote conf ...
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M-x shell truncates commands to 4096 characters
Using M-x shell, I have encountered a problem with commandlines being truncated to 4095 characters.
Steps to reproduce:
perl -e 'print "0" x 5000 . "\n"'
Select output for next command
echo <5000 ...
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After Filename Option Shell Command on Given File
How can be executed an shell command on given file with options AFTER the filename?
Trying here to run convert ScramTree.pdf ScramTreeImg.png via ! on dired mode, but command runs minibuffer input ...
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Grep exited abnormally when using lgrep command
Debian 10, Emacs 26.1
I want to search word "The" for each file in folder test1, by using the command
M-x lgrep
The
[Enter]
test1
And the result is
zsh:1: no matches found: .[!.]*
I ...
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How to change current-directory with emacsclient?
I am trying to change the default directory using emacsclient, but it isn't working as I had hoped.
$ cd
$ emacsclient -e '(emacs-version)'
"GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ ...
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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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Is there a command for opening emacs in shell mode?
Suppose I want to open emacs with a file and shell mode together. If there were two files I would do emacs file1 file2 and emacs opens them both. Is there a command to do this with emacs file [shell]?
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Shell doesn't accept commands after ssh login or R or Python
This used to work just until recently, no idea what happened maybe an updated version of something is causing the problem.
In the shell buffer in Emacs, shell seems to stop working after SSH or ...
