Re: send selection or current line to Terminal/iTerm

[Rusi]

On Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:39:43 PM UTC+5:30, klebsiella wrote:
> Dear Robert,

> Paste is working fine. The idea of sending the current line or selection to
> the terminal allows
> 1) To avoid the selection and copy steps, when a line needed to be executed,
> or the copy step in a selection 
> 2) To keep the focus on the code when you send something to get executed
> 3) I personally like iTerm. I have tried emacs shell, coupled with ess-mode
> of course or simply isend-mode, to interact with R in my case, but found it
> inconvenient in some ways (i.e copy pasting in the shell buffer, inside an R
> process, caused me always problems. !!! )
> 4) last, I like emacs and I knew that this feature (sending current
> selection or line to Terminal) is implemented/builtin in other editors. I
> wanted to make it run on my emacs (maybe just to prove that we can do
> everything with emacs - and yes we can).

> All best,
> K.

I believe eev/eepitch has this intent
http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eepitch-intro.html

[I found the idea interesting/powerful but the docs too confused to
be able to get into it]