send ctrl-g to bash shell in emacs

[Wes James]

ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs? ctrl-c ctrl-c will send a ctrl-c. What about sending other keypress sequences through to a shell?

Thanks,

Wes

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.11.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Wes James:

> ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs?

Have you tried that very simple and basic C-q C-g?

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[Wes James]

Hi,

On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_...@Web.DE> wrote:

>
> Am 07.11.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Wes James:
>
>> ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs?
>
> Have you tried that very simple and basic C-q C-g?
>

I tried that and it just puts ^G on the screen

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> Greetings
>
> Pete


wes

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.12483.1352305...@gnu.org>,

And when you press Return, it will be sent, just like anything else you
type.

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[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.11.2012 um 17:29 schrieb Wes James:

>> Have you tried that very simple and basic C-q C-g?
>>
>
> I tried that and it just puts ^G on the screen

So the shell, or whatever is running inside it, is not waiting for ^G input? There is also the function send-invisible.

Maybe it helps to understand your or your shell's needs when you would explain what you intend to do and to achieve…

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[Wes James]

On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In article <mailman.12483.1352305...@gnu.org>,
> Wes James <comp...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_...@Web.DE> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 07.11.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Wes James:
>>>
>>>> ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a
>>>> ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs?
>>>
>>> Have you tried that very simple and basic C-q C-g?
>>>
>>
>> I tried that and it just puts ^G on the screen
>
> And when you press Return, it will be sent, just like anything else you
> type.

I did press return and it just brought the command line back without doing anything.

I'm running erlang inside of emacs. I.e., I type in erl and it takes me in to an erlang command-line. It accepts certain ctrl command to do things.

In erlang, when you press ctrl-g it should bring up a line that says:

User switch command
-->

so I can do other commands.

wes

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.12490.1352307...@gnu.org>,

Wes James <comp...@me.com> wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <mailman.12483.1352305...@gnu.org>,
> > Wes James <comp...@me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_...@Web.DE> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Am 07.11.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Wes James:
> >>>
> >>>> ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a
> >>>> ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs?
> >>>
> >>> Have you tried that very simple and basic C-q C-g?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I tried that and it just puts ^G on the screen
> >
> > And when you press Return, it will be sent, just like anything else you
> > type.
>
>
> I did press return and it just brought the command line back without doing
> anything.
>
> I'm running erlang inside of emacs. I.e., I type in erl and it takes me in
> to an erlang command-line. It accepts certain ctrl command to do things.
>
> In erlang, when you press ctrl-g it should bring up a line that says:
>
> User switch command
> -->
>
> so I can do other commands.
>
> wes

Don't try to run full-screen programs in an Emacs shell buffer. Use M-x
terminal-emulator if you must run them inside Emacs.

[Wes James]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Wes James <comp...@me.com> wrote:

> ctrl-g means cancel the ctrl commands typed in, but how do you send a ctrl-g to a bash shell inside emacs? ctrl-c ctrl-c will send a ctrl-c. What about sending other keypress sequences through to a shell?

I finally got this working. I have an erlang mode installed and I entered that and did c-c c-z to start an erlang shell and this time when I pressed ctrl-g it put a ^G on the line, but this time when I pressed enter, it did what was expected.

Thanks all for your suggestions!

wes

[Wes James]

Correction - it was c-q c-g, not just c-g that enter a ^G that I then could press enter and it took affect.

wes