Hello,

I'm still trying to do all my jobs inside emacs but I'm missing a couple
things.

The first one is what I can't do anymore when working with a shell/terminal
inside emacs.

1/ Most applications based on ncurse behave strangely when using
M-x term

2/ Although M-x shell has history reference completions, it doesn't complete
for '!#:'. But '!!:' works fine though.

3/ There's no readline "reverse-search-history" function (C-r) which does
an _incremental_ search;

4/ There's no readline "yank-last-arg" function which inserts the last
argument to the previous commands

5/ emacs doesn't expand shell variable when hitting

Am I missing something ?

Thanks

"Francis Moreau" gmail.com> writes:

...

Maybe.

I do all my work inside emacs except for browsing
and 3270 emulation.

I've used M-x shell in the past but not for many years.

Compiles are M-x compile, greps are M-x grep,
ls is dired, email is MH-E.

Maybe most emacs users aren't that committed to M-x shell and
it's friends.

Francis Moreau wrote:

Is the feature useful?
In C-x shell you can move cursor to select any previous typing and
pressing M-> to back to writing command.

On Sep 12, 9:20 pm, "Francis Moreau" gmail.com> wrote:

On Sep 12, 9:20 pm, "Francis Moreau" gmail.com> wrote:

[ please CC me when replying to me ]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Dan Espen
more.mk.spamtelcordia.com> wrote:

But what would you suggest as replacement for:

$ make && gdb || mail -s "Compilation failed" home

More generally sh scripts allow automatisation processes that you
can't simply do with emacs commands, it similar to using a mouse
actually. I don't think you can get rid of them.

Futhermore there are a lot of tools out there that are not integrated
to emacs if you do so, you don't have enough keys on the keyboard to
create bindings ;)

So I don't think you can realistically get rid of a shell

Probably.

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko gmail.com> wrote:

Do you realize how many key pressings you're doing to do what you described ?

In my use case I only press one time.

Hello,

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:10 AM, rustom gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have any pointers that describes them ?

I just try history reference completion, and it's even worse...

thanks

Hello,

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Livin Stephen gmail.com> wrote:

hmm I'm probably missing something here but why exporting TERM=xterm
would change anything since it is already if you're using a window
manager.

ah ok you're using a Mac, so that explains probably why you need to export TERM

yes and that should be again the case. Let see:

$ TERM=xterm emacs
< M-x term>
$ echo $TERM
eterm-color

2008/9/13 Francis Moreau gmail.com>

Actually, without exporting TERM, I saw emacs' term to show it to be
"eterm-color":
the need to export it was to get it to be "xterm" instead.