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Editing scrollback is possible in eshell, and something I use often.

• dakra 3mo ago
  Ah. I tested it before but now I see that I have `(setq eshell-scroll-to-bottom-on-input 'all)` in my config which always snapped point back to the prompt when I tried to edit the scrollback. Anyway, unfortunately that is not possible in a Ghostel buffer and most likely also will never be. I'm open to ideas though how we could improve or replicate your eshell workflow. But also, eshell is awesome and Ghostel is not a replacement for it. It's more a replacement for term.el, maybe shell.el (with line-mode) and other terminal packages like eat and vterm.
  • MarsIronPI 3mo ago
    I think issue #426[0] would be sufficient, since it would allow for editing after the command is finished. I understand that it probably won't happen any time soon, but embedding a full terminal emulator in Eshell is the thing that's got me staying on EAT right now. Ghostel looks really nice though! [0]: https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/issues/426 https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/issues/426
    • dakra 3mo ago
      Noted. I didn't even think of the use-case that then you can edit output from finished commands in the scrollback. But it makes sense and is another +1 for that feature request.