Re: sending commands to shell with emacs lisp

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:15:38AM -0400, Corey Foote wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to send commands to a shell buffer. I'm able to send the command "hello world" by calling this:
> 
> (defun exec-command ()
>   (interactive)
>   (set-buffer (get-buffer "*shell*"))
>   (insert "hello world"))
> 
> But I can't figure out how to send over the "enter key" to actually make it execute the shell command. I'm an emacs lisp newbie!

I think what you are looking for is "call-process" and "start-process".

Evaluating

  (call-process "ls" nil t t "-l")

for example, you get the current directory listing in long form inserted
at point into the current buffer.

(call-process waits for the process to terminate, while start-process
just lets the process run while Emacs goes on with its other tasks).

There are so many options and variants that I'll stop here and refer you
to the documentation -- but do ask here if you get stuck.

Regards
- -- tomás
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