alt Hacker NewsMy hang up is that I live in the terminal. What eMacs folks seem to do is use the terminal in eMacs, kinda in place of tmux? Is that right? And what terminal is the best? Is it really as nice as something like Foot? What happens if you open a text file in an eMacs terminal?
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rich_sasha • yesterday at 1:40 AM
I use Emacs exclusively in the terminal, with standard platform terminals (iterm on Mac, windows terminal on windows). Works great.
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Scarblac • yesterday at 1:07 AM
If you want to quickly edit a file, you can also open emacs in the terminal with "emacs -nw".
I usually just use emacs in one terminal tab and tmux / bash in another. The more you get familiar with emacs though, the more you tend to get things done in emacs without using a terminal at all. Magit and the file interface are both generally a lot better than terminal living. You _can_ drop into a shell window, but in my experience it’s usually easier just to keep a terminal around if you need it.