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Making Emacs without terminal emulator a little more usable (magnus.therning.org)
submitted 10 months ago by magthe0@alien.top to c/emacs
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[–] geza42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"In my experience Emacs simply isn't a very good terminal to run a shell in anyway"

Do you know about vterm and eat? If yes, what is the problem with these?

[–] emaxor@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] redblobgames@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

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.

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