From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem with emacs shell mode Date: 21 Sep 2004 07:56:58 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u0tru0ud.fsf@buug.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095778769 9009 80.91.229.6 (21 Sep 2004 14:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 16:59:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9m71-0007MY-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:59:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9mCw-0000r0-17 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:05:30 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de kENRRnMZdWh+ZcjUZa6VowDVGMjfQaMWHcdfG0dvWYwVYowaEo User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!feed.ac-versailles.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125440 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20796 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 :-( -- "It's not true or not." A reality show producer (real quote)