The class
shell-pane
creates an editor in which a subprocess runs.
User input is interpreted as input to the subprocess. In particular, when the user enters
Return
in the last line, the line is sent to the subprocess. The output of the subprocess is displayed in the pane.
The default value of command is
nil
, which means that the actual command is determined as follows:
On Unix/Linux and Mac OS X, the value of the environment variable
ESHELL
is used if set, and otherwise the environment variable
SHELL
is consulted. If that is not set, then
/bin/csh
(
/bin/sh
on SVR4 platforms) is run.
This function emulates user input on pane :
(defun send-keys-to-pane-aux (pane string newline-p)
(loop for char across string
do (capi:call-editor pane char))
(if newline-p
(capi:call-editor pane #\Return)))
This function trampolines to
send-keys-to-pane-aux
on the right process:
(defun send-keys-to-pane (pane string newline-p)
(capi:apply-in-pane-process pane
'send-keys-to-pane-aux
pane string newline-p))
(setq sp (capi:contain
(make-instance 'capi:shell-pane
:visible-min-width
'(character 60)
:visible-min-height
'(character 30))))
This call emulates the user typing
dir
followed by
Return
:
(send-keys-to-pane sp "dir" t)