Re: Re: shell: link output

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> On 5/3/2010 12:14 AM, Dan Davison wrote:
>
>>
>> It displays the output in the minibuffer, right? I'm not sure there's a
>> very easy solution. Documented behaviour of `shell-command' is that
>>
>> ,----
>> | The output appears in the buffer `*Shell Command Output*'.  If the
>> | output is short enough to display in the echo area (which is determined
>> | by the variables `resize-mini-windows' and `max-mini-window-height'), it
>> | is shown there, but it is nonetheless available in buffer `*Shell
>> | Command Output*' even though that buffer is not automatically displayed.
>> `----
>>
>> so it seems rather hard-wired to me (i.e. you'd have to write your own
>> function or use defadvice).
>
> I think `shell-command' displays the *Shell Command Output* buffer only when it is called interactively.  When it is called programatically, I think they expect the calling program to display the *Shell Command Output* buffer separately.  Org mode is not doing so.

Hi Uday,

Hmm, no, I think what I wrote was correct :) If the output is too long
to fit in the minibuffer, then shell-command does display the output
buffer, whether in interactive or non-interactive context (at least in
emacs 24 on linux).

Dan

>
> Cheers,
> Uday
>
>
>
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