Re: under termianl emacs, how to start a process and make it believe it's running inside a termial?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am running emacs in a terminal.
>
> I want to invoke the ranger program, which is a tui file manager,  inside
> emacs.
>
> basically, I am translating the following file into elisp.
> https://github.com/hut/ranger/blob/master/examples/vim_file_chooser.vim#L10
>
>
> The problem I am facing is, when I do a:
> (call-process "/usr/bin/ranger")
>
> ranger thinks it's not running inside terminal, and exited directly.
>
>
> So, my question is, how to make ranger believe it's actually inside a
> terminal?

You can use term or terminal for that:

M-x term RET /usr/bin/ranger RET

or: (term "/usr/bin/ranger") ; in code.


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