From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: under termianl emacs, how to start a process and make it believe it's running inside a termial? Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:08:11 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <878u0urdis.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459692623 32508 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2016 14:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 03 16:10:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1amijO-0005U4-TW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:10:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amijO-0001vR-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2016 10:10:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net elW43u0UMReMJIRI9AP1KAAluZfqyxBro2f+cFzZO9ncZYEHUu Cancel-Lock: sha1:MGYwOGFiMTZmMGIyMjEyZDg3YmZjYTc0MDM1NDBmMjY1YTE3Yzg2NQ== sha1:LLe22xby91AGDf9tCh6zG0HBK44= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217422 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109716 Archived-At: Shiyao Ma 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. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk