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OK. Fair enough. I use zsh (only scratching the surface) because years ago it turned out that the completion "seemed" to me to be much more powerful (e.g., fu
by toothbrush 11y ago
OK. Fair enough. I use zsh (only scratching the surface) because years ago it turned out that the completion "seemed" to me to be much more powerful (e.g., fuzzy matching, substring matching, etc.), but i haven't invested time to become a wizard. Do you (or anyone else here) endorse a shell which is worth becoming a wizard in? I'm thinking perhaps eshell or simply zsh-in-M-x-shell is perhaps a good starting point, but somehow that's always felt awkward to me, notably because completion seemed to be weaker than simply xterm+zsh.
- klibertp 11y agoDon't go the eshell route unless you're prepared to learn Elisp very well and then write a ton of custom Elisp code. Take a look at its documentation: > Eshell is _not_ a replacement for system shells such as ‘bash’ or ‘zsh’. Use Eshell when you want to move text between Emacs and external processes; if you only want to pipe output from one external process to another (and then another, and so on), use a system shell, because Emacs’s IO system is buffer oriented, not stream oriented, and is very inefficient at such tasks. If you want to write shell scripts in Eshell, don’t; either write an elisp library or use a system shell. And yes, I never managed to make auto-completion work really well in M-x shell (or eshell). One possible shell env you might be interested in is IPython. It's a Python REPL with support for launching external programs, shell-like variable substitution and much more. Coupled with qtconsole it makes for a great shell-like experience. I was using IPython under Windows as my shell for awhile, before switching to PowerShell.