From: Jay Cotton <jay@fleeingrabbit.com>
Subject: Re: problem with emacs shell mode
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:29:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BAAD295-0BE3-11D9-898C-000393D94636@fleeingrabbit.com> (raw)
It worked! I set it to true in my .emacs and now it works like a charm.
Thanks a bunch!
(setq process-connection-type t)
On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Jay> Everything was working great, and I started to think I was finally
> Jay> in emacs paradise, and then I opened a shell buffer with M-x
> Jay> shell. The problem I encountered is that the shell seems to hold
> Jay> onto output of the underlying processes without displaying it on
> Jay> the screen. So, for instance, if I run the unix command 'units' at
> Jay> the shell prompt, instead of prompting me for what unit I have
> Jay> (which is what the program is supposed to do), it appears to
> Jay> hang. The only time it will show the output (that I'm aware of) is
> Jay> when the underlying process ends. As a result, programs like 'ls'
> Jay> appear to work because they aren't interactive - they end almost
> as
> Jay> soon as they are started and their output appears immediately in
> Jay> the buffer. But none of my interactive shell scripts work. :(
>
> Tweaking process-connection-type might help, but no promises. OS X
> is weird, as I am learning on my own, unfortunately :-(
>
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