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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fix or workaround: “Terminal is not fully functional”
What can I do about this issue? I'm using
psql, inside a ssh tunnel to ubuntu, inside a M-x shell, inside a emacsclient -nw
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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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always prompt for default directory when opening interactive subshell
When I invoke C-u M-x shell while visiting a local file or scratch buffer, emacs does not prompt me to enter the default directory for the shell.
But if I'm visiting a remote file or directory ...
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How to mount/unmount devices?
I'm interested in mount/umount usb and other devices directly from emacs.
In many file mangers (like nautilus) the devices are automatically discovered and indicated with an icon, it's possible to do ...
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Run custom bash functions with M-!
I have a few custom bash functions that are defined is some file and are made available to me in regular terminals via the line
. "/path/Custom Bash Functions.sh"
in my ~/.bashrc. However, Emacs ...
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How to execute a shell script inside of emacs?
I simply want to execute the whole file I am editing right now in a small shell buffer just like I can run my python script.
How can I do this?
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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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Emacs / Projectile complains about no job control with Bash/terminal
I use Emacs 27.0.50 on Ubuntu 18.04. Fish is my default shell.
When a file from a directory with .git is being loaded into the buffer, I'm trying to start projectile-find-file , I see the following ...
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Discard stderr in start-process
I'm using start-process to run mplayer and when playing videos I get a ton of output to stderr from "vdp_...". On the command line I usually just 2>/dev/null but start-process runs it directly without ...
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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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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't run Windows 10 Bash with ansi-term
I've got this error, when running M-x ansi-term C:/Windows/System32/bash.exe RET
Spawning child process: invalid argument
after running M-x debug-on-entry RET start-process RET when running M-x ansi-...
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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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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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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 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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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 ...
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How to show colours and clear when running React development server in eshell?
Here is how the usual Ubuntu terminal looks when you run the React development serving using npm start and make changes to your source:
Say the server was already running and you tried to do npm ...
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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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How to evaluate the selection through Python and replace the selection with it's result?
Being more familiar with Python then elisp, I'd like to evaluate the selection as as Python snipped - as a short-cut to opening a calculator or Python prompt and copy-pasting between them.
Is there a ...
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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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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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Break (C-c C-c) in ESS-remote R shell
I am running my R scripts on a remote shell using
M-x shell
ssh -X -C name@server.edu
srun -p nodeX --pty R (slurm command to start R)
M-x ess-remote and select 'R'
everythink works fine, until I ...
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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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Prevent bash-completion adding an extra space when the word is incomplete
When using Emacs shell with the auto-completion feature enabled, I notice that whenever I perform typing and auto-completing a command, Emacs shell always adds an extra space after the first word. I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Shell coding system
If, before M-x shell, I run C-x RET c
(universal-coding-system-argument) I can change the coding system used by the shell.
Therefore, given
echo Straße > foo
foo will be encoded in the related ...
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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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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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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 can I start a server in the background from a source code block without freezing emacs?
I am creating several org-mode documents to track code example and would like to be able to view the results of tangling or executing these code blocks in a browser. In the example below, I've created ...
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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 ...
