Presenting the Eshell

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-present.html

by signa11 • 7 years ago

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howardism.org

dang• 7 years ago

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825607

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649856

viksit• 7 years ago

Can someone comment on how to get better colors on eshell?

The only thing that stops me from using it is that xterm-256color and ansi-color and all the articles on the web talking about colors ultimately say this - the terminal emulator that it ships with just cannot do better colors?

(Eg when you do a ‘cargo run’ for rust, the error colors aren’t even highlighted in eshell)

hammerandtongs• 7 years ago

https://github.com/atomontage/xterm-color

That looked like the way to do it but I haven't tried yet.

spellcard199• 7 years ago

I tried and it mostly works, but for rustc/cargo in particular you also have to set the $TERM environment variable to "xterm" [1].

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/45728#issuecomment-...

nextos• 7 years ago

Eshell has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more polish and documentation. It's sort of an unfinished part of Emacs.

People often take it for a terminal emulator, which is not, and get frustrated when typical ncurses applications don't run properly.

yepguy• 7 years ago

Yep. My Emacs workflow is a lot like my old terminal workflow, but now it's Emacs+packages instead of terminal+ncurses apps. If you try to do a lot of terminal emulation inside Emacs you'll probably have a bad time.

_emacsomancer_• 7 years ago

I try to use eshell for whatever I can (some things still work better in a standard terminal), so I wrote Equake, a drop-down console (with tabs) in Emacs Lisp for eshell (though it can also open term or shell tabs as well):

https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake (link include animated gifs of Equake in action)

grumdan• 7 years ago

A minor addition to what the article says about ipython: You can run arbitrary shell commands there without system() by prefixing them with !. It even supports using python variables as in `a = "some_dir"; ! cd $a`.

vipref• 7 years ago

this looks cool!

Presenting the Eshell

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