Running Shells and Terminal Emulators in Emacs

• readline-complete

  1 2 10.0 Emacs Lisp

  Offers completions in shell mode

  

It should be techincally possible given packages like bash-completion exists. The problem is tho that most REPLs disable readline stuff when they encounter a DUMB terminal for obvious reasons AFAIU. Some have a flag to force the fancy stuff on but some don't. A quick search for "emacs readline completion" yields this package -- https://github.com/emacsmirror/readline-complete -- it needs a new breath of life to turn it into capf I suppose.

• emacs-native-shell-complete

  3 96 3.6 Emacs Lisp

  Completion in shell buffers using native mechanisms

I will plug one of my packages that provides native completions in comint buffers. It basically sends tab to the process and collects the output. Works with SQLite and other shells.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pcmpl-args.el

  4 75 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Enhanced shell completion in Emacs

I've been using pcmpl-args which parses man pages (like zsh and fish do) to generate completions. This approach is comprehensive and shell-independent, but the pcomplete side of things is a bit of a mess.

• shx-for-emacs

  6 212 2.7 Emacs Lisp

  An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp.

I swear by running bash in shell-mode enhanced by shx so I can properly use SSH.

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