Macos – Send command to terminal from emacs

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I'd like to run a command in a running iterm tab (or terminal, whatever) from elisp. I don't want to use a terminal emulator running under emacs, since I've yet to find one that handles output as well as a standalone terminal emulator.

Is this possible?

I basically need this, but for a process that isn't running under emacs:

(term-simple-send proc "echo hello")

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If you are really just concerned about output quality, why not call uxterm with the -hold option as so?

(defun external-xterm-shell-command (COMMAND)
  "Run a terminal command in an external xterm window."
  (interactive "sShell Command: ")
  (shell-command (concat "uxterm -hold -e " COMMAND)))

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This got rid of the error for me:

$ sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs.old

Now edit /usr/bin/emacs in a text editor and paste this in:

#!/bin/sh

EMACS_PATH=/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs

if [ $(id -u) = "0" ]; then
    sudo $EMACS_PATH "$@"
else
    $EMACS_PATH "$@"
fi

(Replace $EMACS_PATH with the actual path to your Emacs binary.) Finally, make your shell script executable:

$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/emacs

For whatever reason, Cocoa Emacs doesn't like to be linked to /usr/bin/emacs, but it runs without complaints if you invoke it from its actual path. Probably a working directory issue.

If someone knows a better way to do this, I'm all ears.

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So you want the command key to function as a control key in Emacs? Add this to your ~/.emacs file:

(setq mac-command-modifier 'control)

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