From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: editing output in shell mode
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:39:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851vvcnoqa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4437.1231535539.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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"Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> Let's say you do something in shell mode that produces a lot of
> output. Normally, you'd use less(1), but that is not possible in
> shell mode.
>
> Ideally, you'd view the output in an emacs buffer, perhaps in text
> mode, so that you can edit it and navigate it.
>
> Is there a way to pipe this output to, say, emacsclient?
>
> Or -- more sophisticatedly -- is there another solution that uses
> shell mode, e.g. to grab the output once it detects that it is a lot
> of output, and redirect it into a text mode buffer?
>
> Obviously if it's an infinite amount of output, it should do what less
> does and not use up all memory.
>
> Google was not my friend. :)
>
> Thanks.
I have something I call emacs-pager, but it will probably not work with
infinite output satisfactorily.
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#!/bin/sh
TMP=`mktemp -t emacs-pager.XXXXXX`
trap "rm $TMP* 2>/dev/null" 0
echo '-*- mode: view; auto-revert-interval: 1; mode: auto-revert-tail; view-exit-action: kill-buffer -*-' >"$TMP"
exec 5<&0 <&-
cat "$@" <&5 >>"$TMP" &
eval "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR}}" '"$TMP"'
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2009-01-09 21:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-01-09 21:12 editing output in shell mode Samuel Wales
2009-01-09 21:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-01-09 21:45 ` tyler
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