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What is the point of using Vterm or Eat? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Both_Confidence_4147@alien.top to c/emacs
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[–] krypt3c@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Terminals are helpful?

It's not clear what you're interested in here. Why use a terminal in emacs as opposed to a separate program? Why these over eshell?...

[–] Both_Confidence_4147@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Can you call external programs like GCC with eshell?

[–] subderisorious@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why are people downvoting this question? OP seems legitimately confused.

[–] MitchellMarquez42@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes? It's a shell

[–] Jak_from_Venice@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have this funny anecdote.

A remote system I was working on has a malfunction: taskbar dead; windows blocked; super-key did’t activate anything. I had just a Emacs window open.

I ran eshell and then “shutdown -r now” and the system restarted.

Great moment with surprised colleagues :-) it was 2020