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Does anyone use emacs as their main terminal emulator? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using konsole (and iterm2 on my work mac) for most of my working career, but on the linux side, I've recently switched to Kitty, but now I'm wondering if I can finally get used to just using emacs on both.

Does anyone use emacs as their main terminal? Is there one better than ansi-term that supports modern features like libsixel?

I still can't quite get used to the keybindings (like C-c twice for ^C) and some other weirdness.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@kelvie many people use vterm which is in many aspects better than ansi-term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the rec, my first impression is that it doesn't really work well with evil-mode, but that may be my configuration error (as it is with emacs).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Vterm not working well with evil was actually my motivation to drop evil completely and embrace emacs key bindings.

It was the best decision I made. I don't perceive a any measurable impact on my ability to efficiently write code or edit text, but I've seen a significant improvement on my ability to use emacs in general

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I went the other way, I've used emacs key bindings for over a decade and switched to evil because it appears most things in doom emacs worked better.

Magit is still a bit of a mess with evil, though, but is manageable.

Maybe one day I'll switch back again, but my fingers know both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If you like modal but find evil a little bit weird, try https://github.com/meow-edit/meow. Its a bit of work to set up, but once you made it yours its great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's probably a configuration error.

As far as I remember it was working fine like a year ago when I was trying to make my own config (just vterm and evil packages were required). At the time the Doom people were saying it was impossible due to how terminal emulation works. Now it's mostly working in Doom unless you go over 1 line. If you do, you're not in a good place since you can't use ESC to jump between words.