How would that be possible to implement a function which calls a shell command and shows its output
in real-time?
I tried a few things but didn't succeed yet, I thought about something as below.
Where I switch to the buffer and activate auto-revert-mode, but apparently it doesn't work...
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(defun pad-show-results ()
"shows the results of the execution"
(interactive)
;; takes a symbol and a number corresponding the conf to analyze
(let
((cmd (read-from-minibuffer "command to run: " "cd $PAD_DIR && ./run_sim.py"))
(output-buffer "*pad-results*"))
(if (buffer-live-p (get-buffer output-buffer))
(kill-buffer (get-buffer output-buffer)))
;; maybe can popup always on the same external frame instead
(switch-to-buffer output-buffer)
(message (concat "running " cmd))
(auto-revert-mode t)
(shell-command cmd output-buffer)
(compilation-mode)))
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Thanks,
Andrea