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Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs
- lolive 1y ago"Emacs ate all my RAM !" - my 90s self -
- _mlbt 1y agoReminds me of another one I heard from that era… “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”
- floren 1y agoMissing one of the most important features of tmux: the ability to share a session with someone else, who will see what you see but can also drive if they so choose.
- bitwize 1y agoMy brother in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, that is what emacsclient is for!
- out-of-ideas 1y agoye "there's an emacs command to do that" ( forever https://xkcd.com/378 https://xkcd.com/378 )
- imiric 1y ago> why not replace it with 100% all-natural Emacs? Eh, mainly because all native Emacs shells and terminal emulators are absolute garbage. It's been a few years since I tried this setup, but I remember quickly running into basic issues like corrupt output, shell keybindings not working, weirdness with apps that use Readline, and of course general slowness compared to any modern terminal and shell combination. Additionally, I don't want my terminal to stop working because of some weird Elisp configuration issue, or experience the random crash or hang that can happen with Emacs. So, no, thanks. I'll stick to using Emacs as an editor, and use other purpose-built tools that do one thing well. I've been happy with st, zsh, and tmux for many years, and don't have a need to change them. I get the appeal, though. But I can easily pipe terminal output in and out of Emacs by other means. My entire workflow doesn't need to depend on a single tool. On a related note, exwm is also a dumb idea. (Hey, Mickey!)
- mickeyp 1y agoHey Ivan - missed this; long time no speak :) Hope you're doing well.