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Making Emacs without terminal emulator a little more usable
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"In my experience Emacs simply isn't a very good terminal to run a shell in anyway"
Do you know about
vterm
andeat
? If yes, what is the problem with these?not OP, but i tried eat for about 2 seconds and immediately gave up. The backspace key produces spaces.
Then I tried vterm. The backspace key works! OK the basics are out of the way. Let's try my basic git workflow, using ncurses program tig to view a log. Nope, lots of random jumpy scrolling.
Maybe these issues have work arounds. But iterm2 + tmux + Emacs already work flawlessly. Years of use with 0 issues.
eat and vterm don't have these problems for me — backspace works, less and vi work, haven't tried tig (I use magit). No hard blockers.