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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
by nextos 7y 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 7y agoYep. 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.