Questions tagged [ansi-term]
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clickable overlay in ansi-term
I am the author of the julia-repl package, which runs an inferior Julia REPL inside ansi-term. A full terminal is necessary because of color and terminal interactions. I need some help extending this to make error locations "clickable".
Julia error…

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Change font color in Emacs ansi-term mode
I am using Emacs 24.5.1
In ansi-term mode, the font color of folder is quite unreadable (I am wearing a pair of anti-blue light glasses), well, I hope to get rid of this color, because of the same reason.
(Blue color is almost invisible through the…

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Htop in emacs' ansi-term won't resize
I am trying to run htop in ansi-term in a graphical (X session) emacs, and htop won't resize. Whatever size the window/frame is when I start htop is the size it continues to try rendering at forever.
Things I've tried:
Running ansi-term on htop…

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Emacs 24.4 and multi-term
I read the following on the Emacs list about Emacs multi-term:
Because of changes in advice.el, multi-term.el does not work anymore. These changes surely mark the emerge into a bright future. But I hate them because I can no longer use my beloved…

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ansi-term won't find file under current directory?
It's a very strange problem. I think it must caused my incorrect configuration of ansi-term, but i still can't find out where it is.
The issue is: when i in ansi-term and press M-x find-file, the prompt isn't current directory but the path i entered…

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Emacs: some programs only work in ansi-term, some programs only work in shell
Relative Emacs newbie here, just trying to adapt my programming workflow to fit with emacs. So far I've discovered shell-pop and I'm quite enjoying on-demand terminals that pop up when needed for banging out the odd commands.
What I understand so…

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How can I get a WSL window with full colour support in Windows GUI Emacs?
How can I get WSL to run in a window on Windows GUI Emacs?
The only way I can do it so far is to enter a subshell in either emacs shell or term cmd by entering the wsl command, and even then, there is no background ANSI coloring, though the…

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How to get GHCi running correctly within ansi-term window in Emacs?
For some reason, I'm loosing the up-arrow and DEL keys after launching GHCi from within an ansi-term window in Emacs.
(These keys work as expected from within the ansi-term window, before launching GHCi.)
And RET doesn't produce a line feed, just a…

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Issues accessing Node.js command history in Emacs ansi-term
I would like to run Node (or Nodejs) interpreter
in an Emacs ansi-term buffer. I found this problem:
I can not access the common readline
command history through ArrowUp and ArrowDown.
When I press ArrowUp and ArrowDown, instead of the expected…

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In emacs, what is the best way to run an external program in another window that can be closed by a single key command after executing program exits?
I have some elisp that runs an external 'npm' command.
(defun npm-mode-npm-run ()
"Run the 'npm run' command on a project script."
(interactive)
(let ((command
(completing-read
"Run command: "…

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Send EOF (^D) to emacs ansi-term
When I use ansi-term mode in Emacs, and run a program such as cat, ^D does not end the input like it normally does. If fact, it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
^C still works.
I have Evil installed

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Emacs 24.3 on OS X ansi-term no colors
I have Emacs 24.3 installed using homebrew (installed it with --cocoa and --srgb). Whenever I launch the emacs.app, and then launch ansi-term, it has no colors. However, when I do emacs -q and launch the app, ansi-term has colors.
So I thought that…

Nico
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Solarized color scheme and palette distorts for ssh'd users in iTerm2
My setup includes vim, iTerm2, tmux, and the solarized dark color scheme. I have the dark solarized color palette loaded into iTerm2 (modifies the ansi colors) and do not use the degraded solarized color scheme (i.e., let…

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Where to find emacs ansi-term bindings
I use extensively emacs' shell ansi-term but so far the way I discover the associated binding is by accidentally pressing keys, making something happening.
Do you know where I can find all the binding refering to ansi-term (or more generally, to a…

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Emacs: Opening a file within the same Emacs session from a tmux session in ansi-term
I often come across the situation where I want to open a file that I am viewing from my tmux session in ansi-term into my Emacs session. I tried to use find-file-at-point (see Max Bozzi's answer below), but in tmux it only directs me to the working…

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