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Friday April 27, 2007

08:13 AM

Emacs: shell - ansi-term

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Using M-x shell under Emacs always seemed like a cool idea, but also always turned out to be a little flaky when displaying the output properly.

M-x ansi-term feels much more solid.

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Thanks (Score:1)

by amoore (7054)

oh, wow. Thanks. After using emacs for 12 years, why do I still feel like a newbie sometimes?
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by jplindstrom (594)
  
  That could be a good thing. It cold also be a bad thing.
  
  I'm not sure, but I'm leaning towards good.
  
  Well, -ish.
However... (Score:1)

by jplindstrom (594)

So solid, in fact, that bash steals the M-x keystroke. Hmmm...
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by jplindstrom (594)
  
  C-c C-j, and C-c C-k takes care of going between char- and line-input modes.
  This is now a very useful shell.

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