# Some of the most useful features in emacs-libvterm require shell-side # configurations. The main goal of these additional functions is to enable the # shell to send information to `vterm` via properly escaped sequences. A # function that helps in this task, `vterm_printf`, is defined below. function vterm_printf(){ if [ -n "$TMUX" ] && ([ "${TERM%%-*}" = "tmux" ] || [ "${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ] ); then # Tell tmux to pass the escape sequences through printf "\ePtmux;\e\e]%s\007\e\\" "$1" elif [ "${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ]; then # GNU screen (screen, screen-256color, screen-256color-bce) printf "\eP\e]%s\007\e\\" "$1" else printf "\e]%s\e\\" "$1" fi } # Completely clear the buffer. With this, everything that is not on screen # is erased. if [[ "$INSIDE_EMACS" = 'vterm' ]]; then function clear(){ vterm_printf "51;Evterm-clear-scrollback"; tput clear; } fi # With vterm_cmd you can execute Emacs commands directly from the shell. # For example, vterm_cmd message "HI" will print "HI". # To enable new commands, you have to customize Emacs's variable # vterm-eval-cmds. vterm_cmd() { local vterm_elisp vterm_elisp="" while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do vterm_elisp="$vterm_elisp""$(printf '"%s" ' "$(printf "%s" "$1" | sed -e 's|\\|\\\\|g' -e 's|"|\\"|g')")" shift done vterm_printf "51;E$vterm_elisp" } # This is to change the title of the buffer based on information provided by the # shell. See, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-4.html, for the meaning of the # various symbols. PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}\007"' # Sync directory and host in the shell with Emacs's current directory. # You may need to manually specify the hostname instead of $(hostname) in case # $(hostname) does not return the correct string to connect to the server. # # The escape sequence "51;A" has also the role of identifying the end of the # prompt vterm_prompt_end(){ vterm_printf "51;A$(whoami)@$(hostname):$(pwd)" } PS1=$PS1'\[$(vterm_prompt_end)\]'