Re: editing output in shell mode

[David Kastrup]

"Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> Let's say you do something in shell mode that produces a lot of
> output.  Normally, you'd use less(1), but that is not possible in
> shell mode.
>
> Ideally, you'd view the output in an emacs buffer, perhaps in text
> mode, so that you can edit it and navigate it.
>
> Is there a way to pipe this output to, say, emacsclient?
>
> Or -- more sophisticatedly -- is there another solution that uses
> shell mode, e.g. to grab the output once it detects that it is a lot
> of output, and redirect it into a text mode buffer?
>
> Obviously if it's an infinite amount of output, it should do what less
> does and not use up all memory.
>
> Google was not my friend.  :)
>
> Thanks.

I have something I call emacs-pager, but it will probably not work with
infinite output satisfactorily.

#!/bin/sh
TMP=`mktemp -t emacs-pager.XXXXXX`
trap "rm $TMP* 2>/dev/null" 0
echo '-*- mode: view; auto-revert-interval: 1; mode: auto-revert-tail; 
view-exit-action: kill-buffer -*-' >"$TMP"
exec 5<&0 <&-
cat "$@" <&5 >>"$TMP" &
eval "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR}}" '"$TMP"'


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