26.7 Running Shell Commands from SXEmacs

SXEmacs has commands for passing single command lines to inferior shell processes; it can also run a shell interactively with input and output to an SXEmacs buffer ‘*shell*’.

M-!

Run a specified shell command line and display the output (shell-command).

M-|

Run a specified shell command line with region contents as input; optionally replace the region with the output (shell-command-on-region).

M-x shell

Run a subshell with input and output through an SXEmacs buffer. You can then give commands interactively.

M-x term

Run a subshell with input and output through an SXEmacs buffer. You can then give commands interactively. Full terminal emulation is available.

• Single Shell: How to run one shell command and return.
• Interactive Shell: Permanent shell taking input via SXEmacs.
• Shell Mode: Special SXEmacs commands used with permanent shell.
• Terminal emulator: An SXEmacs window as a terminal emulator.
• Term Mode: Special SXEmacs commands used in Term mode.
• Paging in Term: Paging in the terminal emulator.