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78 @c This manual is updated to release 2.4 of Eshell. | |
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115 script, instead of telling the computer, ``list my files, please'', | |
116 one writes a standard abbreviated command word---@samp{ls}. Typing | |
117 @samp{ls} in a command shell is a script way of telling the computer | |
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122 that there are many, many different ways to list files. Perhaps you | |
123 want them sorted by name, sorted by date, in reverse order, or grouped | |
124 by type. Most graphical browsers have simple ways to express this. But | |
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202 * Commands verbs:: Commands always begin with a verb. | |
203 * Command arguments:: Some verbs require arguments. | |
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209 Commands are expressed using @dfn{script}, a special shorthand language | |
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211 language; oddly enough, this is what makes it look so complicated! | |
212 Whereas normal languages use a variety of embellishments, the form of a | |
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220 number of verbs, although this number is usually quite large. On the | |
221 author's computer, it reaches almost 1400 in number. But of course, | |
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230 verbs, and must be told specifically what to do. The extra information | |
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232 @command{echo} verb prints back whatever arguments you type. It | |
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244 @command{echo}, arguments may have a wide variety of forms. There are | |
245 textual arguments, numerical arguments---even Lisp arguments. | |
246 Distinguishing these different types of arguments requires special | |
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254 @enumerate | |
255 @item Strings (also called textual arguments) | |
256 @item Numbers (floating point or integer) | |
257 @item Lisp lists | |
258 @item Lisp symbols | |
259 @item Emacs buffers | |
260 @item Emacs process handles | |
261 @end enumerate | |
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277 Beyond this, things get a bit more complicated. While not beyond the | |
278 reach of someone wishing to learn, it is definitely beyond the scope of | |
279 this manual to present it all in a simplistic manner. Get comfortable | |
280 with Eshell as a basic command invocation tool, and learn more about the | |
281 commands on your system; then come back when it all sits more familiarly | |
282 on your mind. Have fun! | |
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305 available in the Emacs Lisp library. It does this by transforming the | |
306 command you specify into a callable Lisp form.@footnote{To see the Lisp | |
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33020 | 552 See the above entry. |
553 | |
35588 | 554 @item Problem running @command{less} without arguments on Windows |
33020 | 555 |
556 The result in the Eshell buffer is: | |
557 | |
558 @example | |
559 Spawning child process: invalid argument | |
560 @end example | |
561 | |
562 Also a new @command{less} buffer was created with nothing in it@dots{} | |
563 (presumably this holds the output of @command{less}). | |
564 | |
565 If @command{less.exe} is invoked from the Eshell command line, the | |
566 expected output is written to the buffer. | |
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572 @item Implement @samp{-r}, @samp{-n} and @samp{-s} switches for @command{cp} | |
573 | |
574 @item Make @kbd{M-5 M-x eshell} switch to ``*eshell<5>*'', creating if need be | |
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33020 | 577 |
578 This is because the tar option --remove-files doesn't do so. Should it | |
579 be Eshell's job? | |
580 | |
581 @item Bind @code{standard-output} and @code{standard-error} | |
582 | |
583 This would be so that if a Lisp function calls @code{print}, everything | |
584 will happen as it should (albeit slowly). | |
585 | |
586 @item When an extension module fails to load, @samp{cd /} gives a Lisp error | |
587 | |
588 @item If a globbing pattern returns one match, should it be a list? | |
589 | |
590 @item Make sure syntax table is correct in Eshell mode | |
591 | |
592 So that @kbd{M-DEL} acts in a predictable manner, etc. | |
593 | |
594 @item Allow all Eshell buffers to share the same history and list-dir | |
595 | |
596 @item There is a problem with script commands that output to @file{/dev/null} | |
597 | |
598 If a script file, somewhere in the middle, uses @samp{> /dev/null}, | |
599 output from all subsequent commands is swallowed. | |
600 | |
601 @item Split up parsing of text after @samp{$} in @file{esh-var.el} | |
602 | |
603 Make it similar to the way that @file{esh-arg.el} is structured. | |
604 Then add parsing of @samp{$[?\n]}. | |
605 | |
606 @item After pressing @kbd{M-RET}, redisplay before running the next command | |
607 | |
608 @item Argument predicates and modifiers should work anywhere in a path | |
609 | |
610 @example | |
611 /usr/local/src/editors/vim $ vi **/CVS(/)/Root(.) | |
612 Invalid regexp: "Unmatched ( or \\(" | |
613 @end example | |
614 | |
615 With @command{zsh}, the glob above expands to all files named | |
616 @file{Root} in directories named @file{CVS}. | |
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620 Perhaps it should interpolate all permutations, and make that the | |
621 globbing result, since otherwise hitting return here will result in | |
622 ``(list of filenames)/bin'', which is never valuable. Thus, one could | |
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33020 | 624 In that case, having an alias command name @command{glob} for |
625 @command{identity} would be useful. | |
626 | |
627 @item Once symbolic mode is supported for @command{umask}, implement @command{chmod} in Lisp | |
628 | |
629 @item Create @code{eshell-expand-file-name} | |
630 | |
631 This would use a data table to transform things such as @samp{~+}, | |
632 @samp{...}, etc. | |
633 | |
634 @item Abstract @file{em-smart.el} into @file{smart-scroll.el} | |
635 | |
636 It only really needs: to be hooked onto the output filter and the | |
637 pre-command hook, and to have the input-end and input-start markers. | |
36508 | 638 And to know whether the last output group was ``successful.'' |
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640 @item Allow for fully persisting the state of Eshell | |
641 | |
642 This would include: variables, history, buffer, input, dir stack, etc. | |
643 | |
644 @item Implement D as an argument predicate | |
645 | |
646 It means that files beginning with a dot should be included in the | |
647 glob match. | |
648 | |
649 @item A comma in a predicate list should mean OR | |
650 | |
651 At the moment, this is not supported. | |
652 | |
653 @item Error if a glob doesn't expand due to a predicate | |
654 | |
655 An error should be generated only if @code{eshell-error-if-no-glob} is | |
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658 @item @samp{(+ RET SPC TAB} does not cause @code{indent-according-to-mode} to occur | |
659 | |
660 @item Create @code{eshell-auto-accumulate-list} | |
661 | |
662 This is a list of commands for which, if the user presses @kbd{RET}, the | |
663 text is staged as the next Eshell command, rather than being sent to the | |
664 current interactive process. | |
665 | |
666 @item Display file and line number if an error occurs in a script | |
667 | |
668 @item @command{wait} doesn't work with process ids at the moment | |
669 | |
670 @item Enable the direct-to-process input code in @file{em-term.el} | |
671 | |
672 @item Problem with repeating @samp{echo $@{find /tmp@}} | |
673 | |
674 With smart display active, if @kbd{RET} is held down, after a while it | |
675 can't keep up anymore and starts outputting blank lines. It only | |
676 happens if an asynchronous process is involved@dots{} | |
677 | |
678 I think the problem is that @code{eshell-send-input} is resetting the | |
679 input target location, so that if the asynchronous process is not done | |
680 by the time the next @kbd{RET} is received, the input processor thinks | |
681 that the input is meant for the process; which, when smart display is | |
682 enabled, will be the text of the last command line! That is a bug in | |
683 itself. | |
684 | |
685 In holding down @kbd{RET} while an asynchronous process is running, | |
686 there will be a point in between termination of the process, and the | |
687 running of @code{eshell-post-command-hook}, which would cause | |
688 @code{eshell-send-input} to call @code{eshell-copy-old-input}, and then | |
689 process that text as a command to be run after the process. Perhaps | |
690 there should be a way of killing pending input between the death of the | |
691 process, and the @code{post-command-hook}. | |
692 | |
693 @item Allow for a more aggressive smart display mode | |
694 | |
695 Perhaps toggled by a command, that makes each output block a smart | |
696 display block. | |
697 | |
698 @item Create more meta variables | |
699 | |
700 @table @samp | |
701 @item $! | |
702 The reason for the failure of the last disk command, or the text of the | |
703 last Lisp error. | |
704 | |
705 @item $= | |
706 A special associate array, which can take references of the form | |
707 @samp{$=[REGEXP]}. It indexes into the directory ring. | |
708 @end table | |
709 | |
710 @item Eshell scripts can't execute in the background | |
711 | |
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714 @item Write an @command{info} alias that can take arguments | |
715 | |
716 So that the user can enter @samp{info chmod}, for example. | |
717 | |
718 @item Create a mode @code{eshell-browse} | |
719 | |
720 It would treat the Eshell buffer as a outline. Collapsing the outline | |
721 hides all of the output text. Collapsing again would show only the | |
722 first command run in each directory | |
723 | |
724 @item Allow other revisions of a file to be referenced using @samp{file@{rev@}} | |
725 | |
726 This would be expanded by @code{eshell-expand-file-name} (see above). | |
727 | |
728 @item Print ``You have new mail'' when the ``Mail'' icon is turned on | |
729 | |
730 @item Implement @kbd{M-|} for Eshell | |
731 | |
732 @item Implement input redirection | |
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736 @code{file-name-quote-list}, and the delimiter list. | |
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740 With the handling of @emph{word} specified by an | |
741 @code{eshell-special-alist}. | |
742 | |
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745 It would be used to provide completion rules for that command. Then the | |
746 macro will automagically define the completion function. | |
747 | |
748 @item For @code{eshell-command-on-region}, apply redirections to the result | |
749 | |
750 So that @samp{+ > 'blah} would cause the result of the @code{+} (using | |
751 input from the current region) to be inserting into the symbol | |
752 @code{blah}. | |
753 | |
754 If an external command is being invoked, the input is sent as standard | |
755 input, as if a @samp{cat <region> |} had been invoked. | |
756 | |
757 If a Lisp command, or an alias, is invoked, then if the line has no | |
758 newline characters, it is divided by whitespace and passed as arguments | |
759 to the Lisp function. Otherwise, it is divided at the newline | |
760 characters. Thus, invoking @code{+} on a series of numbers will add | |
761 them; @code{min} would display the smallest figure, etc. | |
762 | |
763 @item Write @code{eshell-script-mode} as a minor mode | |
764 | |
765 It would provide syntax, abbrev, highlighting and indenting support like | |
766 @code{emacs-lisp-mode} and @code{shell-mode}. | |
767 | |
768 @item In the history mechanism, finish the @command{bash}-style support | |
769 | |
770 This means @samp{!n}, @samp{!#}, @samp{!:%}, and @samp{!:1-} as separate | |
771 from @samp{!:1*}. | |
772 | |
773 @item Support the -n command line option for @command{history} | |
774 | |
775 @item Implement @command{fc} in Lisp | |
776 | |
777 @item Specifying a frame as a redirection target should imply the currently active window's buffer | |
778 | |
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781 This would allow for an ``output translators'', that take a function to | |
782 modify output with, and a target. Devise a syntax that works well with | |
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785 | |
786 @item Allow Eshell to read/write to/from standard input and output | |
787 | |
788 This would be optional, rather than always using the Eshell buffer. | |
789 This would allow it to be run from the command line (perhaps). | |
790 | |
791 @item Write a @command{help} command | |
792 | |
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800 @item Implement @command{bg} and @command{fg} as editors of @code{eshell-process-list} | |
801 | |
802 Using @command{bg} on a process that is already in the background does | |
803 nothing. Specifying redirection targets replaces (or adds) to the list | |
804 current being used. | |
805 | |
806 @item Have @command{jobs} print only the processes for the current shell | |
807 | |
808 @item How can Eshell learn if a background process has requested input? | |
809 | |
810 @item Support @samp{2>&1} and @samp{>&} and @samp{2>} and @samp{|&} | |
811 | |
812 The syntax table for parsing these should be customizable, such that the | |
813 user could change it to use rc syntax: @samp{>[2=1]}. | |
814 | |
815 @item Allow @samp{$_[-1]}, which would indicate the last element of the array | |
816 | |
817 @item Make @samp{$x[*]} equal to listing out the full contents of @samp{x} | |
818 | |
819 Return them as a list, so that @samp{$_[*]} is all the arguments of the | |
820 last command. | |
821 | |
822 @item Copy ANSI code handling from @file{term.el} into @file{em-term.el} | |
823 | |
824 Make it possible for the user to send char-by-char to the underlying | |
825 process. Ultimately, I should be able to move away from using term.el | |
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831 @item Make the shell spawning commands be visual | |
832 | |
833 That is, make (@command{su}, @command{bash}, @command{telnet}, | |
834 @command{rlogin}, @command{rsh}, etc.) be part of | |
835 @code{eshell-visual-commands}. The only exception is if the shell is | |
836 being used to invoke a single command. Then, the behavior should be | |
837 based on what that command is. | |
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841 This would search for some way to open its argument (similar to opening | |
842 a file in the Windows Explorer). | |
843 | |
844 @item Alias @command{read} to be the same as @command{open}, only read-only | |
845 | |
846 @item Write a @command{tail} command which uses @code{view-file} | |
847 | |
848 It would move point to the end of the buffer, and then turns on | |
849 auto-revert mode in that buffer at frequent intervals---and a | |
850 @command{head} alias which assums an upper limit of | |
851 @code{eshell-maximum-line-length} characters per line. | |
852 | |
853 @item Make @command{dgrep} load @code{dired}, mark everything, then invoke @code{dired-do-search} | |
854 | |
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857 This would run Emacs with the appropriate arguments to invoke Eshell | |
858 only. That way, it could be listed as a login shell. | |
859 | |
860 @item Use an intangible @code{PS2} string for multi-line input prompts | |
861 | |
862 @item Auto-detect when a command is visual, by checking @code{TERMCAP} usage | |
863 | |
864 @item The first keypress after @kbd{M-x watson} triggers `eshell-send-input' | |
865 | |
866 @item Make @kbd{/} electric | |
867 | |
868 So that it automatically expands and corrects pathnames. Or make | |
869 pathname completion for Pcomplete auto-expand @samp{/u/i/std<TAB>} to | |
870 @samp{/usr/include/std<TAB>}. | |
871 | |
872 @item Write the @command{pushd} stack to disk along with @code{last-dir-ring} | |
873 | |
874 @item Add options to @code{eshell/cat} which would allow it to sort and uniq | |
875 | |
876 @item Implement @command{wc} in Lisp | |
877 | |
878 Add support for counting sentences, paragraphs, pages, etc. | |
879 | |
880 @item Once piping is added, implement @command{sort} and @command{uniq} in Lisp | |
881 | |
882 @item Implement @command{touch} in Lisp | |
883 | |
884 @item Implement @command{comm} in Lisp | |
885 | |
886 @item Implement an @command{epatch} command in Lisp | |
887 | |
888 This would call @code{ediff-patch-file}, or @code{ediff-patch-buffer}, | |
889 depending on its argument. | |
890 | |
891 @item Have an option such that @samp{ls -l} generates a dired buffer | |
892 | |
893 @item Write a version of @command{xargs} based on command rewriting | |
894 | |
895 That is, @samp{find X | xargs Y} would be indicated using @samp{Y | |
896 $@{find X@}}. Maybe @code{eshell-do-pipelines} could be changed to | |
897 perform this on-thy-fly rewriting. | |
898 | |
899 @item Write an alias for @command{less} that brings up a @code{view-mode} buffer | |
900 | |
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33020 | 903 @samp{X > #<buffer Y>; view-buffer #<buffer Y>}. |
904 | |
905 @item Make @code{eshell-mode} as much a full citizen as @code{shell-mode} | |
906 | |
907 Everywhere in Emacs where @code{shell-mode} is specially noticed, add | |
908 @code{eshell-mode} there. | |
909 | |
910 @item Permit the umask to be selectively set on a @command{cp} target | |
911 | |
912 @item Problem using @kbd{M-x eshell} after using @code{eshell-command} | |
913 | |
914 If the first thing that I do after entering Emacs is to run | |
915 @code{eshell-command} and invoke @command{ls}, and then use @kbd{M-x | |
916 eshell}, it doesn't display anything. | |
917 | |
918 @item @kbd{M-RET} during a long command (using smart display) doesn't work | |
919 | |
920 Since it keeps the cursor up where the command was invoked. | |
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934 @node Key Index |
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