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I'm using Emacs and M-xterm for a terminal. Since my typical workflow looks like this:

  • edit some code
  • C-x o to the terminal buffer (or C-x bterm[Enter] or something)
  • press Up key to use the last command
  • press Enter to run it
  • C-x o to go back

I want to bind all of these (except the first step... maybe) to one command, I believe Emacs is awesome enough to do that :-)

So, a command must:

  • go to the buffer with terminal (maybe it shouldn't change any windows at all, maybe it should split the window vertially (if it weren't split already) and use the right sid)
  • run a last command what've been run there
  • go back to the last buffer/part of the screen

Thank you! I'm not really used to the Emacs scripting system, and I hope someone will help me and someone else will be able to use the answer to improve his workflow, since I believe this is a pretty common one


Examples of commands:

python manage.py test
python manage.py test stats
python solve.py # for project-euler puzzles :-)

the first and the second runs over a ssh (in a terminal) sometimes (I like developing with vagrant)

I understand that it's easy to bind the first and the third ones, but the second changes too often - I'd just like to "run last command"

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    It sounds like you're switching windows to do some sort of code compilation. If so, you should investigate the commands built into the coding modes which do this already w/o a separate shell. Give a concrete example of what you're trying to do and you'll get a better response. Mar 7, 2011 at 23:18
  • not actually, I'll add examples
    – valya
    Mar 7, 2011 at 23:19

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Quick & dirty - define a macro:

F3
C-x b term RET
UP RET
C-x b RET
F4

Now pressing F4 again will repeat the actions you've done between the last F3/F4 pair. You can do much more with macros, including having more than one macro, editing macros, saving macros in .emacs, etc. For more info look at EmacsWiki and Emacs manual.

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Doesn't M-x compile allow one to do something similar? It allows you to type a custom command and run it, then repeat this the next time...

Well, probably there will be problems with interactive commands (that's why you would like to use a term), and perhaps also with a persistent reusable ssh-connection (but TRAMP could help here: cd REMOTELOCATION; your_cmd could work).

So, at least, you can look at compile's source code to learn how buffers are maanged for such a scenario, and how commands are executed.

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