| Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell |
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Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Livin StephenLivin Stephen Date: Sep 13, 2008 01:08
On Sep 12, 9:20Â pm, "Francis Moreau" gmail.com> wrote:> Hello,
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> 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
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> Am I missing something ?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Francis
Hi, FM.
I too found M-x term to initially fall terribly short - but not
anymore :)
YMMV, but I had to "export TERM=xterm" in my ~/.bashrc to make M-x
term work as per expectations...
- i.e. to be usable for everyday use: on my Mac I'm perfectly happy
with it's behaviour now!
(previous value in M-x term term used to show $TERM to be eterm-color
or something like that)
After this change my man-pages, etc don't look like their full of odd
characters (especiallly when trying to print single-quotes), nor is
man-page text underlined randomly .
This TERM change definitely took care of at least issues 3/, and 5/
which you mention
- I have both "C-r" history-search and "TAB"-completion of shell-vars
AND file-names working.
Cheers
--livin.stephen
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