From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: git diff output - terminal is not fully functional Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:55:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C6A6021.9060701@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282046170 23622 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 11:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:56:10 +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 Aug 17 13:56:08 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlKly-0004C5-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:56:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlKlx-0001M3-SP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45594 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlKlQ-0001Lt-0c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlKlO-0005mZ-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlKlO-0005mN-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlKlM-0003t5-C2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:55:28 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-27-95.netcologne.de ([89.0.27.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:55:28 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-27-95.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:55:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-27-95.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UyqzGRvalNay0d1SF1QivEHHJvs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74689 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler writes: > Hi, > > with `git diff' from an shell inside Emacs, > output stops at every diff-line, > reporting its line. > > Also I get a > > "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > > Assume it's a common known issue... > > BTW from bazaar diff runs smoothly... > > What to do? > > Thanks > > Andreas Well you probably don't want to use git diff in a shell, there are many external packages that does it much better (for example magit). The "problem" is that git diff calls a pager (less probably) and the shell in emacs is not a full terminal emulator. There is also M-x term which is closer, but it doesn't make so much sense in my opinion..