Re: Using emacs to view scrollback-buffer (from gnu-screen)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Hugo Heden wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I am trying to write a little script that in certain situations lets
> emacs show a file containing a scrollback-buffer. I am using emacs
> with multi-tty support ("emacs --version" yields "GNU Emacs
> 23.0.60.1"). There's a daemon running ("emacs --daemon"), so I thought
> it might be quick enough to view the scrollback buffer with
> "emacsclient -t <file>". I am experimenting with gnu-screen,
> http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ , and  would like to use
> "emacsclient -t" to view, and get keyboard access to, the scrollback
> buffer (with emacs-style cursor navigation, copy/paste etc).
>
> The buffer is written to a file, /tmp/screenscrollbackbuffer. I'd like
> to do the following:
>
> (A) make emacs show the file in read-only mode.

emacs -t FILE --eval '(setq buffer-read-only t)'

> (B) have the cursor automatically moved to the end of the file at start-up.

emacs -t FILE --eval '(goto-char (point-max))'

> (C) possibly have emacs starting with auto-revert-tail-mode or
> auto-revert-mode enabled as well..

emacs -t FILE --eval '(auto-revert-tail-mode 1)'

> How do I do this? Can I configure this stuff on the command line? How?
> Or should I write an .emacs-style configuration file that this scripts
> somehow passes to emacsclient?

You can do it on the command line.  See the [Appendix C Command Line 
Arguments for] Emacs Invocation node in the Emacs manual.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA