From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mode to allow eg vi or vim WITHIN *SHELL* -- forgot its name Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:44:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133984109 2487 80.91.229.2 (7 Dec 2005 19:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 07 20:34:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek53u-0001K0-Iv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:34:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek549-0007a6-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:35:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek4N6-0006WQ-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek4N4-0006Vo-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:50:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek4N3-0006Va-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ek4Nw-0003Dk-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:51:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek4Kb-0000PL-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:47:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:47:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:47:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31752 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > What was the name of it? (And where to find it, too?) The Emacs Manual, of course. From the Shell node: ,---- | Running Shell Commands from Emacs | ================================= | | Emacs has commands for passing single command lines to inferior shell | processes; it can also run a shell interactively with input and output | to an Emacs buffer named `*shell*' or run a shell inside a terminal | emulator window. | | There is a shell implemented entirely in Emacs, documented in a | separate manual. *Note Eshell: (eshell)Top. | | `M-! CMD ' | Run the shell command line CMD and display the output | (`shell-command'). | | `M-| CMD ' | Run the shell command line CMD with region contents as input; | optionally replace the region with the output | (`shell-command-on-region'). | | `M-x shell' | Run a subshell with input and output through an Emacs buffer. You | can then give commands interactively. | | `M-x term' | Run a subshell with input and output through an Emacs buffer. You | can then give commands interactively. Full terminal emulation is | available. | | `M-x eshell' | Start the Emacs shell. `---- That node's menu has a link to the Terminal Emulator and Term Mode subnodes, which document M-x term more fully. -- Kevin Rodgers