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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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 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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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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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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How do you configure emacs for julia?
What is a recomended way for making emacs as julia code editor? The things which I would like to have are:
autocomplete
julia shell in emacs with abbility to send the code from buffer
debugging
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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 thought ...
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Specify and use inferior shell only once
I know you can customize settings or set environmental variables to get emacs to use other shells in shell-mode (1, 2). Is it possible to simply start a shell specifying which shell you want to use ...
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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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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 ...
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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 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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How to pass bash commands from a script to terminal?
Let's say I have a bash script. Is there a way I can pass specific lines or blocks in the script to terminal process in EMACS? Just like how we do for R script using command C-c R
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How can I disable company-mode in a shell when it is remote?
I am using (global-company-mode 1) but using remote shell it is annoyingly slow.
How can I disable company mode when I open a shell buffer, but only if it's a remote shell?
The problem manifests ...
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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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shell blocks chaining with :post-processing calls and using stdin to create “filter” blocks
To increase modularisation of my emacs code blocks I'm attempting to factor out common functionality into separate function blocks. I'm running into difficulties with chaining :post calls, and using :...
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How to save and execute a python file?
I do not prefer python-mode. I would like a generic way so that I can understand emacs.
I wish the file be saved and python file command then be run as if in a shell.
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Execute current line in shell
I often find myself copying commands line by line from an emacs buffer to my terminal.
How do i bind a shortcut which sends the current line/selection in emacs to my gnome-terminal?
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Emacs continuously asking for input and not sure what is the cause
I have this function implemented to basically compile and run the cpp file I am writing. Some files needs input (cin) so running this function will not stop and would continuously showing this message:...
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Run elisp function from console against running emacs daemon?
If I have an emacs daemon already launched (which loads my config functions, etc) via
$ emacs --daemon
then how can I run (from linux console) some arbitrary elisp? In my case I'd like to run
(org-...
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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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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 start python shell in appropriate working directory?
If I am editing a python file, and start a python shell using elpy-shell-switch-to-shell the process appears to set the working directory as the containing directory of the file.
However, the file ...
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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 ...
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Chronos cannot speak French
I changed chronos-text-to-speech-notify acording to https://github.com/dxknight/chronos/issues/2.
My Chronos config includes this:
(setq chronos-text-to-speech-program-parameters "-s 50 -k 1 -a ...
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How to format shell commands run from Dired?
I want to execute a formatted shell command on a file from within Dired. I am aware that I can use dired-do-shell-command to run a shell command on a selected file file by entering
! <command>
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Shell 2 shows shell 1 Filename/Process
This has bugged me on and off forever. Why does my Ibuffer show shell<1> in the Filename/Process column for buffer named *shell*<2>?
MRL Name Size Mode ...
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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 remove message `Indentation setup for shell type sh`
I open shell files at startup and often get this in *Messages*:
Setting up indent for shell type sh
Indentation variables are now local.
Indentation setup for shell type sh
All my files cause this ...
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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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How to force an org-babel session to reset or initialize?
If I run the following babel shell blocks
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :session one :results output
ssh staging
#+END_SRC
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :session one :results output
hostname
#+END_SRC
Org creates a shell ...
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Skim: search backward generates shell buffer in Emacs
I have configured forward and backward search between Emacs and Skim (MacOS) for my LaTeX work. While the search works fine, every time I do an backward search from Skim, an additional shell buffer ...
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run shell command interactively and insert final output into main buffer
I'm something of an Emacs newbie. I would like to run a shell script I've written and insert the output into the buffer I'm working in. But the script requires some interaction, so ideally I'd like ...
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how to enable pager like behavior in a shell buffer?
I can't believe I'm saying this, but one thing that is "nice" about windows cmd is the pager. When I do man grep in a bash shell inside emacs buffer it spits out the entire content at once. Is there a ...
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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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Emacs shell slow compile
So I've been searching around for this particular problem and apparently I found no solutions.
There are posts on reddit about this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3scsak/...
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(comint-magic-space) in Eshell
I like to interact with the history of my bash commands. For instance, !?python would run the last command that contains python. Since the outcome is quite unpredictable, I often expand it before ...
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Is there a way to speed up emac's “shell” mode?
I am new to emacs. I know we can open a shell, eshell, or term with M-x shell, M-x eshell and M-x term. I have a program that needs to run make then run. On an external terminal app, I am on XFCE so ...
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1 single custom command to compile and run executable
In my emacs init file, I have this:
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
(concat "g++ " buffer-file-name))))
Then, ...
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send custom commands to shell
I have just joined the Emacs church. I would like to know if the following can be done.
Say I have a project folder, I would like to run some custom commands that tie to some keyboard shorcuts for ...
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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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M-x shell's M-r doesn't search bash_history
All,
When I in the emacs shell (run by M-x shell) and press M-r, it only search a very limited command history and doesn't search the bash_history file. But it is said Emacs shell will read my bash's ...
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Elisp: How to accumulate function return into a list
I have this small snippet of Elisp code that decodes kernel traces:
(defvar projbase "/my/proj/base")
(setq my_shell_output
(substring
(shell-command-to-string (concat "/home/demetra/scripts/...
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In a terminal (not in Emacs), how can I use emacs helm/swipe to choose old shell command from bash_history?
In a terminal, we can use C-r to search a command from bash_history, but it is far less powerful than the Emacs package like helm-swoop or ivy-swipe. How can I use a shortcut in terminal (e.g., C-r) ...
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dirtrack mode with fish-shell
I recently started using the fish shell. I tried using it in term-mode in Emacs. One characteristic of this shell is that it shortens the current working directory before printing it as the prompt. ...
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How do I generate a swiper like list from a custom input?
I need help with creating a tool.
So I have some lines selected by a region, that I need to feed line by line to a shell/python script. The output of shell/python script will be of the form:
0xabcd ...
