Both_Confidence_4147@alien.topB to Emacs@communick.newsEnglish · 10 months agoWhat is the point of using Vterm or Eat?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarekrypt3c@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoTerminals are helpful? It’s not clear what you’re interested in here. Why use a terminal in emacs as opposed to a separate program? Why these over eshell?..
minus-squareBoth_Confidence_4147@alien.topOPBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoCan you call external programs like GCC with eshell?
minus-squareJak_from_Venice@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI have this funny anecdote. A remote system I was working on has a malfunction: taskbar dead; windows blocked; super-key did’t activate anything. I had just a Emacs window open. I ran eshell and then “shutdown -r now” and the system restarted. Great moment with surprised colleagues :-) it was 2020
minus-squaresubderisorious@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoWhy are people downvoting this question? OP seems legitimately confused.
Terminals are helpful?
It’s not clear what you’re interested in here. Why use a terminal in emacs as opposed to a separate program? Why these over eshell?..
Can you call external programs like GCC with eshell?
Yes? It’s a shell
I have this funny anecdote.
A remote system I was working on has a malfunction: taskbar dead; windows blocked; super-key did’t activate anything. I had just a Emacs window open.
I ran eshell and then “shutdown -r now” and the system restarted.
Great moment with surprised colleagues :-) it was 2020
Why are people downvoting this question? OP seems legitimately confused.