From: Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Distinguishing between interactive and asynchronous shell buffers
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:02:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y65ajluo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
I find that dired is a much better way of navigating around a large
directory hierarchy than staying in my shell buffer and issuing lots of
cd/ls commands. To bring my shell buffer to a directory I've located
with dired, I wrote an interactive command
bring-last-shell-buffer-to-this-directory (aliased to "c'mere") which
locates the most-recently-used shell buffer like this:
(let ((buffer (or (loop for buffer being the buffers
if (with-current-buffer buffer
(eq major-mode 'shell-mode))
return buffer)
(error "No shell buffers!"))))
;; Issue a "cd" command in buffer that sends that shell
;; to the starting buffer's default-directory
This works great most of the time, but once I started an asynchronous
shell command after moving around in dired, and when I did M-x c'mere,
my routine tried to send a cd to the *Async Shell Command* buffer.
What's the best way to distinguish asynchronous shell command buffers
from interactive shell buffers?
next reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 0:02 Sean McAfee [this message]
2011-02-21 2:43 ` Distinguishing between interactive and asynchronous shell buffers Barry Margolin
2011-02-22 0:24 ` Sean McAfee
2011-02-22 0:50 ` Perry Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.7.1298335846.7153.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 18:48 ` Sean McAfee
2011-02-22 19:59 ` Perry Smith
2011-02-22 21:18 ` Sean McAfee
2011-02-23 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-23 18:28 ` Deniz Dogan
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