Re: How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features?

[Emanuel Berg]

Rodrigo Morales wrote:

> Taking into consideration that =watch= doesn't work properly
> in =M-x shell= and =M-x eshell=, I'd like to know what
> alternatives do you guys use for having the same behavior of
> the "watch" command inside Emacs? Do you open a terminal
> emulator and execute "watch" there or have a pure
> Emacs-approach?

You need a "fully-featured" terminal emulator for this, e.g.
vterm which is written in C and loaded as a dynamic module.
You can get it from MELPA or from

  https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm

But if you are used to `shell' tho you will have some problems
in the beginning...

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