From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: git diff output - terminal is not fully functional Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:59:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6A87A5.2020802@easy-emacs.de> References: <4C6A6021.9060701@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282050117 7537 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 13:01:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:01:57 +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 Aug 17 15:01:55 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlLne-0001uz-Jd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:01:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlLnc-0002q5-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54602 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlLm7-0002pK-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlLm6-0008L6-2n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:60255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlLm5-0008Km-MF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9d8ab.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.216.171]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LvPiV-1Otpux1mLL-0109Zx; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:O5pYHHmQAROJLiGvxhN/gU5haQ92oLxLZpuzzfsn4Jb HMlsS5LLKcBr3c/ZXJUBzbaMG6ZdOfI5VnFkW5JBhA4VOanZWk ELNz7JddQ8f9J/3Pv0HwXj7WrfN74nHJamiD0b9rUXypXnof4X iDIwxJhprXo+qA403nJ9yCcX2cknPjS9RabdEnfay5Ln2RfAGd kcXZKpFUwOioPUfa7IGPfFhp6wT1gNa9koCMLLK7Z8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:74690 Archived-At: Am 17.08.2010 13:55, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > Andreas Röhler writes: > >> Hi, >> >> with `git diff' from an shell inside Emacs, >> output stops at every diff-line, >> reporting its line. >> >> Also I get a >> >> "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional >> >> Assume it's a common known issue... >> >> BTW from bazaar diff runs smoothly... >> >> What to do? >> >> Thanks >> >> Andreas > > Well you probably don't want to use git diff in a shell, there are many > external packages that does it much better (for example magit). Hi, thanks and sorry, just want to use it in a shell: while exploring something new or not so common, I'll not run into bugs from emacs-scripts, have all feature indendent from implementation etc. Also I use shell-scripts, which might be started from inside Emacs more conveniently again. I'll have look at magit anyway, thanks for the tip. > > The "problem" is that git diff calls a pager (less probably) and the > shell in emacs is not a full terminal emulator. > > There is also M-x term which is closer, but it doesn't make so much > sense in my opinion.. > > > Wonder why bazaar is able to cope with this. There should be a way to provide this for git too. Andreas