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28.0.50; enhancement proposal: to have term run command with arguments

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 44665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: Re: bug#44665: 28.0.50; enhancement proposal: to have term run
 command with arguments
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:12:28 +0300

* Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> [2020-11-16 12:28]:
> Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Currently I am using many times both M-x ansi-term or term and also
> > dynamic module M-x vterm and I have this function for vterm:
> >
> > (defun run-with-vterm (command)
> >   "Runs command with vterm"
> >   (let ((vterm-kill-buffer-on-exit t)
> > 	(buffer (format "Running within vterm: %s" command))
> > 	(vterm-shell command))
> >     (vterm buffer)))
> >
> > That helps me to quickly open maildirs belonging to specific users for
> > review. I can also invoke full string as command to `vterm-shell`.
> >
> > I am proposing that term and ansi-term also get the possibility to
> > easier invoke full command.
> 
> eshell comes to mind. Internally, it uses term.el for interactive
> commands like mutt. You can call simply it like
> (eshell-command "mutt -s blabla anyone <at> anywhere") or whatever arguments
> you prefer.

Aha, yes, that way works well. Thank you. Closing.













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