Re: sending commands to shell with emacs lisp

[Helmut Eller]

* Corey Foote [2009-09-13 07:15+0200] writes:

> I'm trying to send commands to a shell buffer. I'm able to send the command
> "hello world" by calling this:
>
> (defun exec-command ()
>   (interactive)
>   (set-buffer (get-buffer "*shell*"))
>   (insert "hello world"))
>
> But I can't figure out how to send over the "enter key" to actually make it
> execute the shell command. I'm an emacs lisp newbie!

comint-send-input sends the region (and a newline) to the subprocess.
So:

(defun exec-command ()
  (interactive)
  (set-buffer (get-buffer "*shell*"))
  (insert "hello world")
  (comint-send-input))

should work.

Helmut