From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Whitton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42612: 28.0.50; Eshell: support setting working buffer like IELM Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:49:15 -0700 Message-ID: <87lfj10wz8.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> References: <87o8nx1sfj.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> <834kppf8km.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3931"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 42612@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 18:50:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k1Bkv-0000qm-Qc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1Bku-0006E8-TW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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It would be great to have something like >> this. > > Like "C-u M-x eshell RET"? > > If that's not what you wanted, then perhaps I don't quite understand > what you meant by running Eshell in another buffer. No, not what I had in mind. In IELM you can type C-c C-b and select a buffer, and then when you eval further sexps in *ielm*, it will be as if you used M-: with that other buffer selected. Useful for debugging a major or minor mode. In Eshell the closest thing you can do is wrap your sexps in a (with-current-buffer) form, or use (progn (set-buffer ...) ...), which is less convenient. -- Sean Whitton