From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues running shell/tshell Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:58:46 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <877jcyy7vt.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1128088062.401560.202370@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128089983 10842 80.91.229.2 (30 Sep 2005 14:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 30 16:19:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELLj3-0008Il-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELLj3-0004jx-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:19:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TwKN8zUic6xhAovjxx323klZo0I= Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=?8:6V]BLKFl8\cc84d\\^j0mDM\=e`Rhhm9FY3?HjZ5` Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134261 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:29830 Archived-At: aizenman@gmail.com writes: > Hi all, > > I'd like to run a shell in emacs because I hear that it's so damn cool > :-) But both shell options (shell and tshell) have their issues that > make them unuseable. Does anyone know the solutions? > > -shell- > I'd like to be able to use up and down arrow to get history. Is there > perhaps a line I can put in my .emacs to give me that option? > > -tshell- > Formatting is terrible: > ~/foo/ > ls > aasdfasdf basdfasdf* casdfasdfasdf* > asdfasdfasdf fgsdfgsdfg xcvzxcveafgds > qweryietyur vbmnfjkfk > > Any thoughts on how to make it recognize the screen width? I don't know tshell, but perhaps: stty columns 80 could help. What does: stty -a print? > -general- > Is there a way to get proper syntax coloring? (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda () (set-variable 'tab-width 8) (setf comint-process-echoes t) (when (fboundp 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on) (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)))) -- "You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!"