cmd-to-echo for emacs

Show the output of long-running commands in the emacs echo area.

Installation

cmd-to-echo is available as a MELPA package: M-x package-install [RET] cmd-to-echo [RET]

Customization

By default the output of the process will only be shown in the echo area (and can be consulted in the *Messages* buffer). If you want to add the process output to the process buffers as well, you can set cmd-to-echo-add-output-to-process-buffers to non-nil:

(setq cmd-to-echo-add-output-to-process-buffers t)

Usage

• Call the cmd-to-echo function: M-x cmd-to-echo [RET]
• Enter the command to run
• Enter the options for the command (optional)
• If you want to stop a process started with cmd-to-echo, you can kill it by calling the cmd-to-echo-kill-process function and selecting the process from the list: M-x cmd-to-echo-kill-process [RET]