From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using emacs to view scrollback-buffer (from gnu-screen) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:48:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2bdf908c0902221132n7ffe75bcv2c6dacb29995823c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235450946 30639 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 04:49:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:49:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 05:50:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbpFM-00020K-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbpE2-0001Dd-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbpDO-000123-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbpDM-00011K-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:48:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54217 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbpDM-000116-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42298 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbpDL-0001oY-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LbpDH-0007zz-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:48:11 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:48:11 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:48:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <2bdf908c0902221132n7ffe75bcv2c6dacb29995823c@mail.gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62309 Archived-At: Hugo Heden wrote: > Good day all, > > I am trying to write a little script that in certain situations lets > emacs show a file containing a scrollback-buffer. I am using emacs > with multi-tty support ("emacs --version" yields "GNU Emacs > 23.0.60.1"). There's a daemon running ("emacs --daemon"), so I thought > it might be quick enough to view the scrollback buffer with > "emacsclient -t ". I am experimenting with gnu-screen, > http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ , and would like to use > "emacsclient -t" to view, and get keyboard access to, the scrollback > buffer (with emacs-style cursor navigation, copy/paste etc). > > The buffer is written to a file, /tmp/screenscrollbackbuffer. I'd like > to do the following: > > (A) make emacs show the file in read-only mode. emacs -t FILE --eval '(setq buffer-read-only t)' > (B) have the cursor automatically moved to the end of the file at start-up. emacs -t FILE --eval '(goto-char (point-max))' > (C) possibly have emacs starting with auto-revert-tail-mode or > auto-revert-mode enabled as well.. emacs -t FILE --eval '(auto-revert-tail-mode 1)' > How do I do this? Can I configure this stuff on the command line? How? > Or should I write an .emacs-style configuration file that this scripts > somehow passes to emacsclient? You can do it on the command line. See the [Appendix C Command Line Arguments for] Emacs Invocation node in the Emacs manual. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA