From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221288040 15448 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 06:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 08:41:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KeOp6-0008Ta-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeOo5-0002G2-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.96.71.224 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221286231 9144 127.0.0.1 (13 Sep 2008 06:10:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.96.71.224; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162165 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:57508 Archived-At: On Sep 12, 9:20=A0pm, "Francis Moreau" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm still trying to do all my jobs inside emacs but I'm missing a couple > things. > > The first one is what I can't do anymore when working with a shell/termin= al > inside emacs. > > =A0 1/ Most applications based on ncurse behave strangely when using > =A0 =A0 =A0 M-x term > > =A0 2/ Although M-x shell has history reference completions, it doesn't c= omplete > =A0 =A0 =A0 for '!#:'. But '!!:' works fine though. > > =A0 3/ There's no readline "reverse-search-history" function (C-r) which = does > =A0 =A0 =A0an _incremental_ =A0search; > > =A0 4/ There's no readline "yank-last-arg" function which inserts the las= t > =A0 =A0 =A0 argument to the previous commands > > =A0 5/ emacs doesn't expand shell variable when hitting > > Am I missing something ? > > Thanks > -- > Francis shell's inadequacies in emacs are well known. eshell often works better