How do I change shells in Emacs?

How do I change shells in Emacs?

2 Answers

1. set the variable `explicit-shell-file-name’ in your ~/.emacs file: (setq-default explicit-shell-file-name “/bin/bash”)
2. set the ESHELL environment variable in your ~/.profile file: export ESHELL=/bin/bash.
3. set the variable `shell-file-name’ in your ~/.emacs file: (setq-default shell-file-name “/bin/bash”)

How do I open a new shell in Emacs?

7 Answers. C-u M-x shell will do it. It will prompt for a name for the new shell, just hit return for the default (which will be something like *shell*<2> . Also works with eshell.

How do I use Emacs shells?

Run the shell command line cmd and display the output (shell-command). Run the shell command line cmd with region contents as input; optionally replace the region with the output (shell-command-on-region). Run a subshell with input and output through an Emacs buffer. You can then give commands interactively.

What is shell mode?

Shell mode is a derivative of Comint mode, a general-purpose mode for communicating with interactive subprocesses. Most of the features of Shell mode actually come from Comint mode, as you can see from the command names listed above.

What’s the best way to run shell in Emacs?

If you come from other editors or IDEs you’re probably using an external terminal window (like xterm), a terminal multiplexer (like GNU Screen) or console window (in Windows) and switching back and forth. But there’s a better way…

Is there way to run Cygwin Bash in Emacs?

There’s a better, and more complete, way of getting Cygwin bash to work in Windows. All shell does is redirect the input and output to Emacs, and that means interactive console programs (like top, ssh, midnight commander, etc.) won’t work properly.

What kind of emulator is in Emacs terminal?

Terminal Emulator. The Emacs terminal emulator is exactly that; it emulates the VT100-style ANSI escape codes, just like xterm or rxvt. Emacs’s emulator isn’t complete or perfect, so some interactive programs won’t work properly, but most things like top and ssh will.

How to change the default error buffer in Emacs?

If you want Emacs to replace the region with the output returned from the command, you should prefix the command with the universal argument, C-u. If shell-command-default-error-buffer is set, as with the aforementioned commands, then an error buffer, and any text sent to standard error, is displayed there instead.