From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 01:25:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfc211qm.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87o8gy43x5.fsf@gmail.com
Rodrigo Morales wrote:
> Taking into consideration that =watch= doesn't work properly
> in =M-x shell= and =M-x eshell=, I'd like to know what
> alternatives do you guys use for having the same behavior of
> the "watch" command inside Emacs? Do you open a terminal
> emulator and execute "watch" there or have a pure
> Emacs-approach?
You need a "fully-featured" terminal emulator for this, e.g.
vterm which is written in C and loaded as a dynamic module.
You can get it from MELPA or from
https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
But if you are used to `shell' tho you will have some problems
in the beginning...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-06 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 21:09 How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features? Rodrigo Morales
2021-02-05 21:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2021-02-06 0:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-02-07 13:08 ` Leo Butler
2021-02-07 18:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-06 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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