From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Create shell from ido
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:46:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B616AE8.3090602@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5df65c2e-6a63-4989-a562-a10b768dd6d6@k41g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
José A. Romero L. wrote:
> On 28 Sty, 02:54, Nathaniel Flath <flat0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have ido activated. If I do C-x C-f and navigate to a directory, C-d will
>> open a dired buffer in that directory. Is there a way to open a shell
>> buffer instead?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathaniel Flath
>>
>
> Depends on the shell you want to use. For regular shell you could use
> something like this:
>
> (defun nf/openshell (&optional dir)
> (interactive "DDirectory to open shell into: ")
> (shell)
> (if dir
> (comint-send-string
> (current-buffer)
> (concat "cd " (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern dir) "
>
> "))))
>
> in any case, it doesn't seem to be possible to open a shell directly
> in any arbitrary directory other than default-directory.
It's not ido, but it should do it:
(defun My-Shell-where-I-want-it ()
(interactive)
(dired "My-precious-directory")
(shell))
Maybe adapt that for ido, if necessary.
Cheers
Andreas
> You always
> have to send a "cd something" to move to where you want to be (though
> I'd be glad to find out I'm wrong). In any case, that's the same I do
> in SrC (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander) and works
> quite well for me.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> José A. Romero L.
> escherdragon at gmail.com
> "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
> (Quarry worker's creed)
>
>
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2010-01-28 9:25 ` Create shell from ido José A. Romero L.
2010-01-28 10:46 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2010-01-28 1:54 Nathaniel Flath
2010-01-29 5:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-01-29 6:14 ` Nathaniel Flath
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