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emacs is a good manager for terminals. i use it instead of tmux.

noman-land 3y ago
I love tmux and have been wanting to dip my toes into emacs. Is there a tutorial or migration guide you could recommend?
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  https://www.masteringemacs.org/book https://www.masteringemacs.org/book There are good free ones too, but this one is still best IMO.
- nathants 3y ago
  plenty of emacs resources around. i would suggest multi-term for terminals. text file and terminal management is very similar.
matrix12 3y ago
I tell coworkers who ask "It's Emux... tmux but graphical!"
- nathants 3y ago
  i run emacs in a terminal. graphics emacs is too fancy for me. i’ve got firefox and webkit2gtk if i’m feeling fancy.
pxc 3y ago
I decided to finally give tmux a break and experiment with other terminal emulators lately, after enjoying living in tmux for a long time. I started playing with kitty first, which I'm still using. But more recently I've decided to try making more use of vterm, and so far I like it a lot!
wwfn 3y ago
emacs as a terminal has surprisingly good latency [0] but I'm pretty careless with my pipes and frequently overwhelm the buffer with verbose output. Waiting seconds for a ctrl-c to take so I can fix my mistake is painful. Any magical incantations (long line tweaks?) that help with this? apropos of emacs as WM: with the config kludge I've made and frequent REPL spamming, I've found `killall -SIGUSR2 emacs` essential to get back the editor. [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
- harrygeez 3y ago
  which term do you use? eshell?
  - wwfn 3y ago
    M-x shell but i'm in comint-mode more often for ESS/R where I'm likely to accidentally print out a dataframe with too many rows.
harrygeez 3y ago
I tried to use Emacs for that for a while, but whether it's ansi-term or eshell it always felt a little kludgy. There's always this mental exercise of having to switch between char and line mode. I hate that I could accidentally delete characters in stdout sometimes and then something just breaks in my head for me.
- nathants 3y ago
  it doesn’t have to work like that, mine doesn’t. maybe chatgpt can help setup your init.el. it’s quite a good experience when tuned.
  - harrygeez 3y ago
    that's actually really great suggestion. I have a fairly extensive init.el I just used to run my terminal sessions in dedicated terminals
- mpenet 3y ago
  There’s vterm nowadays
  - harrygeez 3y ago
    thanks for recommending! Looks interesting

I love tmux and have been wanting to dip my toes into emacs. Is there a tutorial or migration guide you could recommend?

ParetoOptimal 3y ago
https://www.masteringemacs.org/book https://www.masteringemacs.org/book There are good free ones too, but this one is still best IMO.
nathants 3y ago
plenty of emacs resources around. i would suggest multi-term for terminals. text file and terminal management is very similar.

matrix12 3y ago

I tell coworkers who ask "It's Emux... tmux but graphical!"

nathants 3y ago
i run emacs in a terminal. graphics emacs is too fancy for me. i’ve got firefox and webkit2gtk if i’m feeling fancy.

pxc 3y ago

I decided to finally give tmux a break and experiment with other terminal emulators lately, after enjoying living in tmux for a long time. I started playing with kitty first, which I'm still using. But more recently I've decided to try making more use of vterm, and so far I like it a lot!

wwfn 3y ago

emacs as a terminal has surprisingly good latency [0] but I'm pretty careless with my pipes and frequently overwhelm the buffer with verbose output. Waiting seconds for a ctrl-c to take so I can fix my mistake is painful. Any magical incantations (long line tweaks?) that help with this? apropos of emacs as WM: with the config kludge I've made and frequent REPL spamming, I've found `killall -SIGUSR2 emacs` essential to get back the editor. [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/

harrygeez 3y ago
which term do you use? eshell?
- wwfn 3y ago
  M-x shell but i'm in comint-mode more often for ESS/R where I'm likely to accidentally print out a dataframe with too many rows.

harrygeez 3y ago

I tried to use Emacs for that for a while, but whether it's ansi-term or eshell it always felt a little kludgy. There's always this mental exercise of having to switch between char and line mode. I hate that I could accidentally delete characters in stdout sometimes and then something just breaks in my head for me.

nathants 3y ago
it doesn’t have to work like that, mine doesn’t. maybe chatgpt can help setup your init.el. it’s quite a good experience when tuned.
- harrygeez 3y ago
  that's actually really great suggestion. I have a fairly extensive init.el I just used to run my terminal sessions in dedicated terminals
mpenet 3y ago
There’s vterm nowadays
- harrygeez 3y ago
  thanks for recommending! Looks interesting