From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: send selection or current line to Terminal/iTerm Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87k38lvp9r.fsf@debian.uxu> <87d2edvnog.fsf@debian.uxu> <1402609430389-324400.post@n5.nabble.com> <1402666776993-324448.post@n5.nabble.com> <1402728754759-324525.post@n5.nabble.com> <8738f7zi3l.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403014527 20216 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2014 14:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:15:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 16:15:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WwuAU-0001P4-3z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwuAT-0007EY-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:15:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.149.230 with SMTP id x66mr854404yhj.24.1403014287004; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.164.129 with SMTP id yq1mr619377igb.15.1403014286804; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no4316686qae.1!news-out.google.com!qf4ni5igc.0!nntp.google.com!r2no1939324igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.53.164; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.53.164 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:11:26 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206036 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98307 Archived-At: On Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:39:43 PM UTC+5:30, klebsiella wrote: > Dear Robert, > Paste is working fine. The idea of sending the current line or selection to > the terminal allows > 1) To avoid the selection and copy steps, when a line needed to be executed, > or the copy step in a selection > 2) To keep the focus on the code when you send something to get executed > 3) I personally like iTerm. I have tried emacs shell, coupled with ess-mode > of course or simply isend-mode, to interact with R in my case, but found it > inconvenient in some ways (i.e copy pasting in the shell buffer, inside an R > process, caused me always problems. !!! ) > 4) last, I like emacs and I knew that this feature (sending current > selection or line to Terminal) is implemented/builtin in other editors. I > wanted to make it run on my emacs (maybe just to prove that we can do > everything with emacs - and yes we can). > All best, > K. I believe eev/eepitch has this intent http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eepitch-intro.html [I found the idea interesting/powerful but the docs too confused to be able to get into it]