emacs-shell-mode-iterm-extensions

This extension to shell mode allows emacs to interpretes some special escape codes (originally from ITerm 2) that allow terminal programs to interact with the terminal in interesting ways.

Installing

In your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el

(load "iterm.el")

Examples

• cat a file from a shell prompt

  $ imgcat someimg.jpg

• bring emacs to the foreground

  $ ./some_time_consuming_script.sh; cat steal_focus.txt

• change the cursor shape

  $ cat cursor-bar.txt

• clear the scrollback buffer (i.e. truncate the shell buffer)

  $ cat giant.log $ cat clear-scrollback.txt

• tell shell-mode what the current directory is

  export PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne '\033]50;CurrentDir='; pwd | tr -d '\n'; echo -ne '\007'"

• set the mark

cat set-mark.txt

See Also

http://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html