Send commands to Emacs from programs running in term.el. In vanilla Emacs, programs running in term.el can send commands back to Emacs by printing a 'magic escape sequence' which the terminal emulator parses -- this is how directory tracking works. But the list of commands is hard-coded, and you can't add new ones. This package lets you add new commands. It uses a different magic escape sequence to avoid interfering with the built-in commands, but the principle is the same. When a program prints a command, it won't show up on the screen, but will instead be interpreted by Emacs. This is a library, and doesn't make any user-visible changes. For an example of something that uses it, see the 'term-alert' package (https://github.com/CallumCameron/term-alert). Usage To register a command: (add-to-list 'term-cmd-commands-alist '("command" . some-callback-function)) where "command" is the name of the command, and some-callback-function is the function you want to be called when the command is run. The function should take two arguments -- the first is the command name itself, and the second is the command's argument. To send a command, use the emacs-term-cmd script: emacs-term-cmd command arg If called outside Emacs, this does nothing (i.e. it won't mess things up). Because the commands are based on terminal output, they work just as well through nested shells, multiple SSH sessions, or tmux (not 100% reliable -- see comments in emacs-term-cmd). Installation Install the term-cmd package from MELPA. The emacs-term-cmd command will always be on the PATH of any shell launched from Emacs. However, for full functionality you should add ~/.emacs.d/term-cmd (or wherever your user-emacs-directory is) to the PATH in your environment or shell's startup files, too (e.g. ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.), on any machine you often SSH into; this will allow shells inside tmux or on other machines to send commands back to Emacs on your local machine.