is for the Emacs ansi terminal emulator. Emacs supports ANSI-standard VT100-style escape sequences recognized by such modern terminals as xterm. M-x ansi-term command starts a terminal, which by default runs in a sub-shell in a buffer named *ansi-term* with term-mode.
Questions tagged [ansi-term]
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Stray trailing 4m before prompt with Zsh in M-x ansi-term
I recently read Running Shells in Emacs, and spend some time to adapt my elaborate Zsh prompt to work with the limited capabilities of M-x shell and M-x ansi-term.
Following this effort I'm now finally able to use Zsh from within Emacs, however…
user227
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How to define a function that calls a console process using ansi-term?
I'm using Julia within emacs, and I've found that despite the existence of ess and julia-mode, the best way for me to do that seems to be to use ansi-term and execute:
ipython3 console --kernel=julia-0.5
This way, I get behavior identical to the…
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Why can't I use my custom keybinding in ansi-term's char mode?
I'm an emacs noob
—why can't I use this key
(global-set-key (kbd "M-o") 'other-window)
defined in my emacs config, in ansi-term char mode?
Are all meta keybindings simply passed raw to the terminal process?
edmqkk
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Multiline prompt with ansi-term
Running plain Emacs with emacs -Q then running ansi-term, if I input some long text in the prompt such that the text breaks into the next line (without hitting Return), then I hit C-x 2 to create another frame, for some reason the prompt is half…
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Killing ansi-term says: "... has a running process"
Whenever I kill an ansi-term buffer I have to confirm due to the fact of:
"ansi-term has a running process; kill it ?", (even if nothing is running btw).
How could I have Emacs killing the term without requiring this confirmation regardless of…
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pv console utility brokes ansi-term
Every time I use pv in ansi-term it brokes my terminal. There are two possibilities:
broken terminal clears every time i press enter and hides output
it stops understand \n or something and writes output line by line in a bottom of a window,…
olmstad
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How can I clear all text in a buffer using `ansi-term`?
Emacs 27.1
M-x ansi-term
run some process that outputs lots of text.
Then C-c and type Linux command clear.
Only the current page is cleared, in the buffer. But I need to clear all text from the buffer.
a_subscriber
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How disable ask me about Run /bin/sh in ansi-term?
Emacs 27.1
When I run ansi-term, it every time ask me about
Run programm /bin/sh
I every time answer - yes
Is is possible to disable this question and immediately run ansi-term?
a_subscriber
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How to put ansi-term state in mode line?
Is there a way to put the ansi-term state (char-mode or term-mode) in the mode line?
Elsa Gonsiorowski
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Sending code to an ansi-term via isend-mode: How to modify default buffer chosen and how to automatically open ansi-terms?
I use isend-mode (see here)
to send (bash) code to an ansi-term as follows:
1) `M-x ansi-term` # open ansi-term
2) Open buffer with code I want to send to *ansi-term*
3) `M-x isend RET *ansi-term* RET` # => associates code buffer with…
Marius Hofert
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Why is M-x remapped in ansi-term char mode?
I understand that you can use M-x in ansi-term's char mode by doing C-x M-x, but why can't it just be used normally? Is there some historical reason? I can use other meta commands (like M-f or M-b), why does M-x need the C-x prefix key?
(Also, I…
edmqkk
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Launch Emacsclient in ansi-terminal mode?
I connect to an emacs server via emacsclient. Frequently the first thing I want open is a new buffer with an ansi-terminal in it.
Is there a way to launch emacsclient and to send the command "open a new buffer with an ansi-terminal"?
EDIT: Or better…
George
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