Re: How to execute/mimick the "watch" command using Emacs features?

[Leo Butler]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Rodrigo Morales wrote:
>
>> Taking into consideration that =watch= doesn't work properly
>> in =M-x shell= and =M-x eshell=, I'd like to know what
>> alternatives do you guys use for having the same behavior of
>> the "watch" command inside Emacs? Do you open a terminal
>> emulator and execute "watch" there or have a pure
>> Emacs-approach?
>
> You need a "fully-featured" terminal emulator for this, e.g.
> vterm which is written in C and loaded as a dynamic module.
> You can get it from MELPA or from
>
>   https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
>
> But if you are used to `shell' tho you will have some problems
> in the beginning...

M-x term

That works for me and is a part of GNU emacs.

Leo