Comments on: Executing Shell Commands in Emacs

By: Compiling and running scripts in Emacs | Mastering Emacs

Compiling and running scripts in Emacs | Mastering Emacs — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:30:22 +0000

[...] talked about running shells and executing shell commands in Emacs before, but that’s mostly used for ad hoc commands or spelunking; what if you want [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:26:10 +0000

The obvious issue with recursive minibuffers is the potential to inadvertently not exit all the way out of the call stack. I went looking for some kind of built-in assistance for this issue, and found minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode which adds a depth count to the minibuffer whenever you are more than one level deep. Recommended.

By: Making The Emacs Minibuffer Recursive | Irreal

Making The Emacs Minibuffer Recursive | Irreal — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:09:03 +0000

[...] over at Mastering Emacs, has a great post on Executing Shell Commands in Emacs and does his usual excellent job of explaining the fine points of his subject matter. I’ve [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:14:49 +0000

Thank you for pointing out M-&

By: emaniacs

emaniacs — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:02:12 +0000

I like this article,
and i use double f1 to replace M-!
essentially i use f1 followed by one character to call shell command, like to call date, and many more…

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:17:05 +0000

Ah, yes, good catch; because shell commands terminate with a new line — usually — you will have to delete it by moving to the end with C-e then typing C-d. I forgot to mention that. Thanks!

By: Cristian

Cristian — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:47:51 +0000

Great resource. I have never been able to incorporate shell commands too much into my Emacs workflow; I’ll try to fix that.

I tried your recursive minibuffers example, but ran into a problem. Typing C-u M-! pwd RET appends a random ^J character so I get these extra newlines. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?