How to catch the current command?

[hogoww]

Hi, This is not an issue per se, I'm just trying to see if I have (or may have) a buffer containing the current command. My aim is instantiate a terminal emulator to run commands more easily from pharo. Thanks in advance :) Pierre

[lxsang]

Hi, I'm not sure that i can understand you correctly. What exactly the buffer that you want ? If you just want to execute a command and get its result into a buffer, you may consider using OSSubprocess.

PTerm, on the other hand, allows you have an entire Terminal Emulator inside the Pharo IDE

[hogoww]

Hi, I tried that, but I had trouble getting the command results back. this seemed easier to do with your work. Did I just miss part of the documentation? I don't know if that's clearer but I would like to have a like to a terminal emulator (manage event ect..)

[lxsang]

I have a similar project to OSSubprocess: SystemProcess. You can try it out. I'm not sure if it fulfill your requirement but i can help you resolve all the problems related to SystemProcess.

[hogoww]

Hi, I send you a private mail (through your blog) to stop making noise here. I do not know if you got it (global current situation may prevent you to, of course !) but just in case, let me try to sum it up here! =) I would like to be able to just have something like: Terminal sendLine:'ls' Which would give me a string with the result.

Also, I'd like to be able to use this with interactive program, such as clisp, python, and whatever else, which prevents the use of SystemProcess/OSSubProcess (UNLESS I misunderstood them when I used it)

Thank you !

[lxsang]

Hello, i responded to your private message on my blog, but it seams that there is a problem with your email address so the message is undelivered pierre.misse-chanabier@inria.com (connection time out). So i put it here, for further communication please contact me at xsang.le@gmail.com

Hi,

With PTerm, you can do any of the stuffs that you mentioned (emacs, CLips, etc).

What PTerm do is, it fist opens a shell session in a separated process, then redirect STDIO 
of this process to Pharo. In this way, Pharo can provide a GUI interface (Terminal Emulator) 
to handle input and output of that process (shell session).

It looks like PTerm is what you want, instead of doing in on your own, i suggest to fork PTerm 
into your local repository and modify it to your need.

Feel free to ask any question related to PTerm, i will try to help you if i can.

Regards,

Sang

[lxsang]

Please consider close this issue and switch to private communication using email. Regards,

[hogoww]

Thanks !