insert a partial command into the command line

insert a partial command into the command line

[Artem Chuprina]

Hello.

I want the following trick: to invoke from the menu of my window manager
an xterm where to run one command with completion (preferrably - in
disowned state) and exit just after run.  I can run 

xterm -e zsh -i -t

and it will do the most valuable thing of this - allow me to write a
command with completion and then exit.  But I need to write all the
command and manually add '&' to detach it.  I could not find a way to
supply to this shell a partial command (say, "dict " or "ssh
some.host.name ") or to say it that it should automatically run the
command in disowned state (&!).  Could you help me?

-- 
Artem Chuprina
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Re: insert a partial command into the command line

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 24,  3:24pm, Artem Chuprina wrote:
}
} xterm -e zsh -i -t
} 
} and it will do the most valuable thing of this - allow me to write a
} command with completion and then exit.  But I need to write all the
} command and manually add '&' to detach it.

Put this in your ~/.zshrc file:

    if [[ -o interactive && -o single_command ]]
    then
      print -z "$*"
      function auto-bg {
	BUFFER="{ $BUFFER } &|"
	zle .accept-line
      }
      zle -N accept-line auto-bg
    fi

Now you run zsh like

    xterm -e zsh -s -t -i "ssh some.host.name "

The -s is needed to prevent zsh from treating the argument as the name
of a script file.