Or, use the One True Shell[1]: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/ https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/ As a less joke

Or, use the One True Shell[1]: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/ https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/ As a less joke but also more joke: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html#:~:text=run%20Emacs%20with%20the%20appropriate%20arguments%20to%20invoke%20Eshell%20only https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h... 1: it was going to be much funnier if I could have found the link where someone used emacs as Xsession or similar but this one will do