Re: under termianl emacs, how to start a process and make it believe it's running inside a termial?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.9050.1459822277.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> wrote:

> On 4 April 2016 at 23:00, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In article <mailman.8972.1459748791.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> >  Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Maybe:
> >
> > M-! /usr/bin/ranger </dev/tty >&/dev/tty
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Looks like the right direction.
> 
> But after running it, I got:
> zsh:1: device not configured: /dev/tty
> 
> I am not familiar with the devfs, but surely emacs must setup the tty for
> ranger.

The tty should just be inherited from the terminal that you're running 
Emacs in. You're using "emacs -nw" to run it in the terminal window, 
aren't you?

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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