What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[David Combs]

I'd like to run "top" in *shell*; unfortunately,
all the cursor-control stuff it generates makes
for a totally unreadable display.

Does emacs have some mode that knows to do "the right
thing" with all that screen-control garbage, so that
the changing display in *shell* looks similar to what
you see when running it outside of emacs?

Thanks!

David

(I suppose the same mode would enable to eg run vi
within *shell* too.)

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[Matthias Meulien]

Hi,

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> I'd like to run "top" in *shell*; unfortunately, all the
> cursor-control stuff it generates makes for a totally unreadable
> display. (...)

I use `top -b -n 1' ; these options can be stored in a file named
`.top'.

Bye,
-- 
Matthias

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
> Does emacs have some mode that knows to do "the right thing" with
> all that screen-control garbage, so that the changing display in
> *shell* looks similar to what you see when running it outside of
> emacs?

Try M-x ansi-term . 

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'd like to run "top" in *shell*; unfortunately, all the
>> cursor-control stuff it generates makes for a totally unreadable
>> display. (...)

You can try M-x term


        Stefan

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[Matthew Kennedy]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> I'd like to run "top" in *shell*; unfortunately,
> all the cursor-control stuff it generates makes
> for a totally unreadable display.
> 

I vaguely remember some code which implemented a nice 'top'-like
interface in emacs.

-- 
Matthew Kennedy

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[David Combs]

Thanks for all the good ideas!

Now to go and *try* them.

THANK YOU

David

Re: What mode so running top in *shell* looks decent?

[Tim X]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:

 Matthew> dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
 >> I'd like to run "top" in *shell*; unfortunately, all the
 >> cursor-control stuff it generates makes for a totally unreadable
 >> display.
 >> 

 Matthew> I vaguely remember some code which implemented a nice
 Matthew> 'top'-like interface in emacs.

 Matthew> -- Matthew Kennedy

It was called view-processes or something similar. I was running it
under emacs 20, but have never got around to installing it under emacs
21. It was pretty nice though - actually had some features most 'top'
implementations don't.

Tim
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