Eshell is a command shell written in Emacs Lisp.
Questions tagged [eshell]
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Problem using git and Emacs eshell mode on Windows
when i try to make a git commit in emacs eshell mode:
git commit -a -m "message"
I receive an error:
'c:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
and at the same time this problem is absent…
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Equivalent of "exec" in emacs *eshell*?
I want to write an eshell function that sort of wraps an existing command-line script. In order to do this, I want to be able to execute a shell command from an eshell function. My first instinct was to do something like
(defn eshell/myfunc ()
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scripting with eshell
Is there a way to write .sh scripts to be used from eshell buffer? with eshell(elisp) specific commands?
I want ediff $1 $2 to be executed from my compare.sh from within eshell buffer.
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How to send ctrl+D into Emacs' Eshell?
How to send ctrl+D into Emacs' Eshell? It looks like Emacs intercepts all my attempts to send any control key + a letter to shell and tries to interpret it as it's own command. How to send that combination to Emacs' EShell?
user9945408
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Invoking su in emacs' eshell
I can run normal linux commands in eshell as a non-root user. When I try to su to root, all the usual linux commands are gone (ls, cat, etc.) How do I fix this?
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Emacs, smooth scrolling, scroll-margin and eshell
I like a scroll margin of around 8 or so. This means the buffer will start scrolling when the cursor gets within 8 lines of the top or bottom. However, this scheme does not work well with eshell and ansi-term buffers, isql buffers, or any REPL…
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Emacs eshell. How to read content of command-line on pressing RET
My intention is to use bm.el Visible Bookmarks for each prompt as I press RET. I have managed to achieve this to a some degree.. Please comment on my code, below, if it is missing some important issue: eg. I have no idea if I need to handle the…
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emacs shell: type once, run everywhere
Within emacs, I want to have multiple shells open, type a command once, and have it run in each shell -- similar to the way multixterm ( http://freecode.com/projects/multixterm ) does.
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How to get rlwrap to work inside Emacs' shell / eshell?
When I try to get rlwrap to work inside an Emacs (version 24.3.50.1) shell buffer (either M-x shell or M-x eshell), I get this error message:
rlwrap: Oops, crashed (caught SIGFPE) - this should not have happened!
For example:
rlwrap telnet…
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Execution environment of the script (eshell vs bash)
How to determine inside a script - whether it has been executed from a eshell or from a normal shell (bash, etc.)?
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command expansion: how to convince eshell I'm not trying to execute an elisp expression?
git grep fizzbuzz $(git rev-list --all)
fatal: Invalid object name 'Symbol's function definition is void'.
Of course, the same command in M-x shell works fine.
How do I convince eshell I'm not trying to execute an elisp expression here so I can…
user15486
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I want to replace `ls` with `ls -l` in eshell
I use eshell-parse-command 'ls -l' and I got this:
(progn (eshell-trap-errors
(eshell-named-command "ls" (list "-l"))))
Then I write a alias in my .emacs file:
(defalias 'ls
(progn ...))
But I doesn't work. I don't know why.
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Emacs daemon: swapping keys
I'd like to swap C-x and C-u with Emacs daemon (since I switched to Dvorak layout). The regular keyboard-translate doesn't work with Emacs daemon. In the help-gnu-emacs I found a solution: I should use (define-key key-translation-map ...) instead…
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Multi-line input in EShell
Is there a way for multi-line input in EShell?
When I want to do a quick function definition at the commandline of EShell, it doesn't really work. I tried using explicit linebreaks (\n), as well as single-quotes ('') and double quotes (""), but with…
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Displaying images in an Emacs process running within iTerm2
I want to display inline images in a Emacs process running in iTerm2. Here is a demonstration of what I'm expecting, using imgcat (a iTerm2 shell integration utility).
To begin with, I executed the following code within an *eshell* buffer. The…
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