(provide 'cce/emacs-pager)uhoreg has a cool script they shared on Reddit which lets you use Emacs buffers as your pager.
[[ -z "$(which emacsclient)" ]] && less -
t=$(mktemp --suffix .emacs-pager) || exit 1
cat - >> $t
echo 'reading into emacs...'
emacsclient --alternate-editor=less "$t"
rm -f -- $t
export PAGER=emacs-pager
{ ... }:
{
home.sessionVariables = {
PAGER = "${../files/emacs-pager-bin}";
};
}Of course, if you feed random terminal shit in to your Emacs, you're gonna end up with ANSI escape codes. Luckily, xterm-color.el exists, and we can use that to automatically color our buffers as necessary.
We start with xterm-colorize-maybe, a
function which searches the buffer for an ANSI control-code, and
colorizes the buffer if it finds one.
(defun cce/xterm-colorize-maybe ()
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
(when (search-forward (char-to-string 27) nil t)
(xterm-color-colorize-buffer)))
(add-hook 'find-file-hook #'cce/xterm-colorize-maybe)I set TERM to xterm-256color everywhere that I can so that
commands try to output the text and don't assume that Emacs (identifying
as TERM=dumb) can't handle it. comint and compilation are handled a little bit differently
due to one having a process filter and the other not.
(use-package xterm-color
:config
(setenv "TERM" "xterm-256color")
(setq compilation-environment '("TERM=xterm-256color"))
(setq comint-output-filter-functions
(remove 'ansi-color-process-output comint-output-filter-functions))
(defun cce/compilation-start-hook (proc)
(when (eq (process-filter proc) 'compilation-filter)
(set-process-filter proc
(lambda (proc string)
(funcall 'compilation-filter proc
(xterm-color-filter string))))))
:hook
(shell-mode . (lambda ()
(add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions
'xterm-color-filter nil t)))
(compilation-start . #'cce/compilation-start-hook))