Running a Shell Inside Emacs

Why Leave Emacs?

You can spawn a shell process inside a separate Emacs buffer by issuing the command "M-x shell", or, if you want to execute a single command from the vertically challenged minibuffer, you can enter the command "M-!".

Picking a Particular Shell

Use the command

(setq shell-file-name
"PathToYourShell")

in your "~/.emacs" file to point to what ever shell you like.

Command History

"M-p" and "M-m" recall the previous and next commands, respectively.

Completion

The TAB key can be used for completion on filenames, system commands and variables.

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Running a Shell Inside Emacs

Why Leave Emacs?

Picking a Particular Shell

Command History

Completion

Last updated $Date: 1997/04/11 03:46:16 $.