From: mathias.dahl@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:55:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e62dd53-5cd9-4356-b7bc-4b354555e274@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh9qpznc.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>
> I have been thinking if not Emacs would benefit from a shell-like CLI, instead of hammering the RET between each stage?
>
> Is this a new idea or did anyone do work on it?
>
> There are several advantages:
>
> For a simple example, the advantage is speed, less typing, and no visual "reorient" after the RET.
>
> In a shell:
>
> man emacs RET
>
> In Emacs:
>
> M-x man RET emacs RET
For some commands (interactive functions) you can get something like this in eshell (M-x eshell). In eshell, try for example this:
$ woman emacs RET
(I'm on a Windows box right now so I cannot test, but that should work)
However, that will only work (I think) for commands (and non-interactive functions as well) that take parameters, where Emacs will pass the arguments from the Eshell command line, to the command/function, as arguments. For commands that by explicit code asks the user for a value, it would not work without some clever hacks, I think.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable about the internals of calling commands can comment on this?
/Mathias
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-18 19:27 shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour Emanuel Berg
2013-08-18 20:55 ` mathias.dahl [this message]
2013-08-18 21:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-19 6:57 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-19 7:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-08-19 15:16 ` Barry Margolin
2013-08-21 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-21 17:50 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2013-08-21 22:58 ` Bob Proulx
2013-08-22 6:40 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2013-08-22 22:42 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-23 6:06 ` Guido Van Hoecke
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