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

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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] 2 points 4 months ago

@kelvie hm... I rarely use terminal emulators anymore, I mostly use Eshell nowadays.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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] 3 points 4 months ago

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] 0 points 4 months ago

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] 1 points 4 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!

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