| Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell |
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Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: rustomrustom Date: Sep 12, 2008 23:10
On Sep 12, 9:20Â pm, "Francis Moreau" gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Â 1/ Most applications based on ncurse behave strangely when using
> Â Â Â M-x term
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> Â 2/ Although M-x shell has history reference completions, it doesn't complete
> Â Â Â for '!#:'. But '!!:' works fine though.
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> Â 3/ There's no readline "reverse-search-history" function (C-r) which does
> Â Â Â an _incremental_ Â search;
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> Â 4/ There's no readline "yank-last-arg" function which inserts the last
> Â Â Â argument to the previous commands
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> Â 5/ emacs doesn't expand shell variable when hitting
>
> Am I missing something ?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Francis
shell's inadequacies in emacs are well known.
eshell often works better
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