Re: eshell and jobs

[Michael Spittel]

Thank you for your response John.  
Actually, when I inserted Kai's original suggested code in my .emacs
file, (see below), in eshell all I had to do was type

ec program inputfile &

and eshell gave me the fact that the jobs was running in a buffer called
*compilation*.  When it was done, it then told me in that same buffer
that the job was completed.

Kai's suggested code-------snip here-----------

 (defun eshell/ec (&rest args)                                              
   "Use `compile' to do background makes."                                  
   (if (eshell-interactive-output-p)                                        
       (let ((compilation-process-setup-function                            
          (list 'lambda nil                                                 
                (list 'setq 'process-environment                            
                      (list 'quote (eshell-copy-environment))))))           
     (compile (eshell-flatten-and-stringify args))                          
         (pop-to-buffer compilation-last-buffer))                           
     (throw 'eshell-replace-command                                         
            (let ((l (eshell-stringify-list (eshell-flatten-list args))))   
              (eshell-parse-command (car l) (cdr l))))))                    
 (put 'eshell/ec 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)                          
----------end of snip-------

But when I put in the code you suggested into my .emacs, eshell still
told me the job was done in the command line, and it did not create a
new buffer by the name of *eshell.job.finished*.  In other words, it
behaved as the eshell we all know and love :-)

I know I'm going to show my utter ignorance for elisp in the following
question, but is there anything inherently 'wrong' with using the code
that Kai suggested?

thanks
mike


John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
> You will have to rewrite `eshell-remove-process-entry', so that it
> inserts something into a buffer rather than calling message.  For
> example:
> 
> (defun eshell-remove-process-entry (entry)
>   "Record the process ENTRY as fully completed."
>   (if (and (eshell-processp (car entry))
>          (nth 2 entry)
>          eshell-done-messages-in-minibuffer)
>       (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*eshell.job.finished*")
>         (insert (format "[%s]+ Done %s" (process-name (car entry))
>                        (process-command (car entry))))))
>   (setq eshell-process-list
>       (delq entry eshell-process-list)))
> 
> John

-- 
-Mike Spittel

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