I knew&forgot: .el allowing eg more, less (vi? top?) in *shell*

I knew&forgot: .el allowing eg more, less (vi? top?) in *shell*

[David Combs]

1: What's the name of that .../lisp/xxx.el that allows you
to run eg more, less, and other cursor-jumping programs
within *shell*?

(Had a short name, 3 or 4 chars long.)

2: before I try it and get hung or something, what
   about running eg vi, top, etc there too?

   (Hell, what about running another EMACS within *shell*!)

3: This xxx.el -- is it the only, or the best, of such modules?



Thanks!

David

Re: I knew&forgot: .el allowing eg more, less (vi? top?) in *shell*

[Rebecca Breu]

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dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> 2: before I try it and get hung or something, what
>    about running eg vi, top, etc there too?
> 

I am able to run those programs from within

M-x ansi-term


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Re: I knew&forgot: .el allowing eg more, less (vi? top?) in *shell*

[David Hansen]

On 17 Apr 2008 09:48:15 -0400 David Combs wrote:

> 1: What's the name of that .../lisp/xxx.el that allows you
> to run eg more, less, and other cursor-jumping programs
> within *shell*?

How about

viewfile ()
{
    emacsclient -e "(view-file \"$1\")"
}

alias less=viewfile

in your .bashrc?  Don't forget to (server-start).

David