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Eshell is a command shell written in Emacs Lisp.

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How to make eshell-autojump case insensitive under Linux

Under Linux, eshell-autojump will do case sensitive matching which I just find a nuisance. I've tried to circumvent this by advising eshell/j with a eshell-under-windows-p that always returns t but to my chagrin eshell-under-windows-p invoked in…
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eshell Doesn't Honor display-buffer

I use display-buffer C-x 4 C-o to set a buffer to the other window. This works great unless I want to put my eshell buffer in the other window. eshell puts itself in my current window every time. If I prefix the command with C-u eshell switches…
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Make invisible eShell(kiosk) window on startup

I want my file to start on eShell minimized or even better hidden. Here is my code at this moment: $ShellLauncherClass =…
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Term-set-escape-char problem

When I start M-x eshell it gives me message "term-set-escape-char: Key sequence M-x starts with non-prefix key". It doesn't give me prompt in the eshell window. eshell-prompt-regexp is "^[^#$\n]* [#$] ". eshell-prompt-function is: (lambda…
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In Dired, how do I add the file path to the kill ring with relevant characters escaped?

As this answer explains, the Dired function dired-copy-filename-as-kill (0 w) lets one add the path of the file at point to the kill ring. However, I would like to use this path on Eshell, where characters such as SPC need to be escaped. Is there a…
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Emacs unable to locate python

I am trying enable python dev environment in Doom Emacs (to which I am a newbie); I installed elpy; and tried to launch shell to which it says "python not found but can be installed from Microsoft...". Then I added this to my config.el: (setq…
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How to highlight some words in Eshell?

I use Eshell in Emacs to run a program and I could check the output in the Shell , but I want to highlight some words like ‘errors’ ‘info’,or other words like that. How could I do that ?
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How to add "^" as an argument to a command in emac's eshell?

I am trying to make a command-line calculator for use by a webpage I am making. But when I try to execute in eshell with java Calculate -exp 10^20^30 I get: :s/20/30/ Wrong type argument: stringp, 106 But that same command works fine in the regular…
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(Emacs) How to only show last directory in emacs shell?

I would like to know if it is possible to show only last directory in eShell (Emacs Shell). For example, It's currently in path /home/user/Programming/C++. With current setup of eshell, ~/Programming/C++ $, but I would like to show only this: C++…
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Command+K in Eshell (mac)

Often I will have multiple buffers open in Emacs, including a few eshells, and using the muscle-memory from bash, I will Command+K to try and clear the buffer in eshell. However, using this in eshell just screws up all of my buffers and I have to…
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Strange error output with emacs eshell (possibly related to zsh?)

I'm new to Emacs and am trying to use eshell. Unfortunately, when I have errors in a C file, for example, I receive some odd error output (this is just an example; the particular error isn't important): ^[[1m2-2.c:18:18: ^[[0m^[[0;1;31merror:…
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How to overwrite a key binding only on eshell?

I use evil-mode on emacs, and recently I started using eshell, I really like how I can leave insert mode and move on the eshell buffer to copy content or other goodies, but when entering insert mode again it does it in the cursor current position,…
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restart process executed in eshell in emacs

i have started a python process in eshell: python app.py i want to restart this with a elisp function, i think comint-quit-subjob when executed with C-c C-\ kills the process but all my attempts to execute comint-quit-subjob have failed This is…
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What Eshell's equivalent command for the shell command Ctrl-U?

In Terminal, I can erase the entire input by Ctrl-U, without invoke it. Is there such a command in Eshell?
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eshell starts python IDLE instead of running script when editing remotely

With Emacs 24.3.1, I get this when editing through Tramp/ssh in eshell: / $ bash / $ python test.py hello world! / $ exit exit / $ python test.py Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 12 2012, 14:23:48) [GCC…
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