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Ummm. It probably depends on the kind of work you do in the terminal but for me it was a game changer. Being able to pull in any of the text from a terminal int
by earthscienceman 3y ago
Ummm. It probably depends on the kind of work you do in the terminal but for me it was a game changer. Being able to pull in any of the text from a terminal into a buffer, easily, without copy paste or mouse is a massive game changer for the type of work I do. I can operate on any of the text in the terminal the same way I would emacs, and pull it into a code buffer. Selectively pulling in random long directory paths, etc etc. I can also drop anything from notes or code into a terminal without needing to dance around.
It also turns emacs (server-mode) into a really great replacement for tmux/screen. tmux behaves very strangely in how it instantiates the very first window, calling the process after that window and killing that window can kill all your tmux sessions. I run emacs as a daemon on my HPC clusters and have it monitor jobs and more via vterm.
- gumby 3y agoYeah, I guess my use case is completely different; shell mode is great and vterm goes the wrong way. But I never run even curses programs in the terminal, just text all the way. The great thing about emacs is you can use what works for you!