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Weird shell output when using IPython 5
IPython 5 has a new terminal interface, which is not compatible with Emacs' inferior shells. To fix it, add the --simple-prompt flag to the IPython command:
(setq python-shell-interpreter "ipython"
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Tramp mode is much slower than using terminal to ssh
Turns out it was projectile that was causing the problems. As soon as I disabled projectile-mode TRAMP was buttery smooth and I began to understand the hype behind it.
Hopefully this helps out ...
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Git Bash in emacs on Windows
The ^[] noise is coming from various terminal control characters in your shell prompt. Try echo $PS1 to see the full sequence, and try e.g. export PS1='$ ' to see that a simpler prompt string removes ...
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.bash_profile or .bashrc for shell in emacs?
This is the correct behaviour. .bash_profile is for so-called login shells. Like when you log in to your computer in text mode, or in a terminal emulator to a different computer via ssh or telnet or .....
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How to prevent Emacs from showing passphrase in `M-x shell`?
In Shell mode, Emacs detects password prompts based on the prompt. If it sees Password: (or Enter new password:, or Passwort:, or Wachtwoord: or a number of variations), it assumes that you're ...
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How to prevent backspace from deleting my shell prompt?
I think you're looking for comint-prompt-read-only. E.g.
(setq comint-prompt-read-only t)
should take care of it.
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how to name buffers (*shell*)
Go to the buffer you want to rename, in your case *shell*. Then type M-x rename-buffer and enter the new name for this buffer.
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fix or workaround: "Terminal is not fully functional"
Quick answer
That's not an issue, it's a statement of fact. M-x shell isn't a fully functional terminal - it simply can't do what you want it to do. If you want a full terminal emulator in emacs, you ...
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.bash_profile or .bashrc for shell in emacs?
In addition to the points made by @pingi, you can also use a separate configuration file that will be loaded only for the emacs shell (M-x shell):
From the manual page (emacs) Interactive Shell:
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Tramp mode is much slower than using terminal to ssh
I have also found the solutions on the tramp FAQ that address speeding tramp up to work pretty well.
From the page, here is what I added to my configuration:
(setq remote-file-name-inhibit-cache nil)...
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weird characters in shell mode with zsh
The control sequences ^[[?2004h and ^[[?2004l turn bracketed paste mode on and off.
Shell mode doesn't support bracketed paste mode (with these or any other control sequences), so zsh shouldn't try ...
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How do i change the default shell for shell-command
You need to change the option shell-file-name.
(setenv "SHELL" "/bin/bash")
This doesn't work since Emacs is already running thus it's too late, Emacs initializes shell-file-name according to ...
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The elisp function to run the shell command in specific file path
From elisp you can set default-directory temporarily and then run your shell command:
(let ((default-directory "/tmp"))
(shell-command "ls"))
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Org Src Block does not return any output
Rephrasing and shortening, I guess the question is roughly: "how to obtain stderr output without changing the source block content?"
By skimming the comments section of the John Kitchin's ...
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Org-babel invoking cmd.exe
In spite of what I wrote in the comments one can set cmd as shell in ob-sh!
The only thing to be aware of is that one needs to use cmdproxy.exe instead of cmd.exe to get the output to stdout right.
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Run a shell command as lisp
Interactively, C-u M-! (i.e., shell-command with the universal argument prefix) will prompt you for a shell command and insert the output in the current buffer.
To do this from elisp code, see the ...
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How to get the PATH from the SHELL
No, you don’t want to use -i because you’re not launching an interactive shell. That is, this shell will not be connected to a terminal that the user can type in. It is instead going to be connected ...
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/bin/ls --color=always fails to produce colorized output in shell-mode
My Emacs (GNU Emacs 24.5.1) sets TERM=dumb in startup.el and my ls from GNU coreutils 8.24 checks TERM even with --color=always. dumb is not a terminal type recognized by dircolors (the utility used ...
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Key binding with an argument
As you seem to have already noticed, a function need the interactive form before it can be bound to a key. interactive doesn't just tell Emacs the function is a command, it is also tells Emacs where ...
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Should I have removed `(shell . t)` to clear an ob-shell initialization error?
Did you successfully fix the problem? Sure! ob-shell was flipping out and you stopped loading it. That is, in some sense, a fix!
That said: the chunk of code you found and commented out controls ...
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Error running Emacs from a Terminal window: "Symbol's function definition is void: package-initialize"
This is an ancient version of emacs that came preinstalled with macOS. To find out where the version of emacs that you installed is, start it by clicking on the icon and then evaluate (expand-file-...
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Send region to shell in another buffer
Emacs provides the function process-send-region to do this. If your buffer always has the same name, you can hard-code it in:
(defun my-send (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(process-send-region "...
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How do you run Emacs on mac?
Just to expand on @ghoetker's answer:
Install Emacs into your application folder from https://emacsformacosx.com/
Using the terminal, open the file ~/.zshrc in your favorite text editor.
Somewhere ...
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Is it possible to read user input from STDIN while tangling a source block?
Try this
Note: Made following minor changes to your code block:
Moved #!/bin/bash into code block header :shebang #!/bin/bash to automatically set executable file permissions when block is ...
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Emacs is garbled by output of a background process running in the same terminal emulator
No, there isn't, if you don't want to silence your background processes.
You could use something like tmux or GNU Screen for your background processes.
Or you could run them in another terminal.
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TERM, terminfo, termcap. What are they how does Emacs use it?
TERM is an environment variable, you set it in your environment. This could be the environment of a particular shell that you've opened, by running export TERM=foo, or all of your shells by adding the ...
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How i can open shell in current buffer?
I am assuming that the original poster means targeting the currently selected window in the same frame. In the event the original poster is desirous of targeting a specific window in a different ...
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fix or workaround: "Terminal is not fully functional"
If you don't care about whether Emacs is a "fully-functional" terminal or not and you just want it to work without making you press enter, then run the psql command \pset pager off. This ...
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Using pipe in a shell command
By default, dired-do-shell-command inserts the file name at the end of the command you enter. In effect, you are doing this:
tac | head -n 2 test
Without an argument, tac doesn't produce any output ...
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How disable show warning message in shell?
To suppress the warning first make sure the warnings library is loaded by entering M-x load-library RET warnings RET.
Then add the listed option to warning-suppress-types. Load the customization ...
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