I like the idea of having a shell completely written in Emacs Lisp, but I don't like the idea of Emacs and the shell being the same entity. Despite the appeal I feel, it doesn't seem like a good idea to me. #eshell #emacs #lisp #shell

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#gnu #emacs #eshell #vterm #eat #terminal #shell #freesoftware

TIL emacs-eat (a terminal emulator in pure Lisp for Emacs) has builtin integration with eshell. By enabling eat-eshell-mode in eshell, interactive commands ("visual commands" in eshell terminology) can be used directly in eshell without customizing eshell-visual-commands.

https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

#emacs #eshell

?? to ask #chatgpt what went wrong with the last #emacs #eshell command

Now with markdown/block highlighting.

Added to chatgpt-shell (beware: super experimental, and prolly buggy)

https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell/issues

?? to ask #chatgpt what went wrong with the last #emacs #eshell command (experiment)

I've started looking into using #eshell more in #emacs. In particular how to write eshell scripts to simplify my workflow.

Never mind, just found it in the manual:

(add-to-list 'eshell-expand-input-functions #'eshell-expand-history-references)

#emacs #eshell #Elisp

#emacs #Eshell

Anybody know how to get `!!` and related syntax working?

@trentskunk I was able to move to #eshell with the help of `eat-eshell-mode` from https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

Then again I don't use a lot of complex things in terminal anymore, so that might be harder for others.

Speaking of #Eshell, the C-c C-p and C-c C-n shortcuts for jumping to the previous/next shell prompt are *awesome*! I really miss them when using tmux+zsh. #Emacs #tip

Hey hey hey, now we can start theming it...
#fvwm #fvwm3 #trisquel #emacs #eshell

Built from source, that's why I'm so happy about it.

I'm working on re-implementing a certain Zsh prompt in #Eshell and wanted better access to the current-directory portion. I split it with `(split-string default-directory "/" t)` and spent about 20 minutes trying to put it back together.

Then realized `string-join` exists.

Dammit #emacs!

@cstross Ah, write-once read-never shellscripts, fun times.

You're right, it is pretty funny.

It's a set of #awk-style matches, writing them out as strings instead of awk/sed script files is a good idea if you want to break things.

Personally I'm quite fond of #EmacsLisp for script-gluing things where performance of the glue doesn't matter. #Eshell likewise is a decent shell #DSL with access to those same #Elisp-glued utilities.

#Racket's #Rash is somewhat similar.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/

ahós emacsers of the #fediverse !
mmh...locally i can do it,
but when i do firstly #ssh to a remote server 'M-p' and 'M-n' command history navigation stops working in my #emacs #eshell session .
What am i missing ?

Thanks, thanks, thanks beforehand for your #help

𝙲𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚞𝚖 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚘 𝚘𝚋-𝚎𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕.𝚎𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚒 𝚍𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚝.

...or do I just not understand something?

#+begin_src eshell
date
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: Thu Feb 9 12:10:39 2023

#+begin_src eshell
date
date +%s
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:

^^^^^^^^
Nothing!

#+begin_src eshell
emacs-version
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0)
: of 2021-03-27, modified by Debian

#+begin_src eshell
emacs-version ; org-version
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 9.3

Strange, isn't it?

Well... Bookworm is near (and maybe I'll manage to transgrade to Devuan then too... but that'll be a different rant...) ,,X_-ing fingers...

#emacs #eshell #orgmode

@jgoerzen

Also my use case of #Emacs is specific: While I do some programming, it mainly is my "operating system" that I use all day long, i.e. I read my email in #Gnus, I use some #orgmode, I use #ses as spreadsheet, #eshell and #vterm are my main shells etc.

But anybody with more in-depth knowledge about #DoomEmacs vs #Spacemacs should please chime in and feel free to correct me.

2/2

@inetpro

@RLetot @cpbotha You need to change "eshell-visual-commands". If you want to run visual commands with Eat, you can enable "eat-eshell-visual-command-mode".

#Emacs #Eshell #Eat

#emacs screenshot of `consult-outline` inside an #eshell session.

#emacs screenshot of `consult-outline` inside a dummy #eshell session.

This Reddit comment suggests something similar to what I tooted previously to use the prompt regexp for better #eshell navigation. In this case, set outline-regexp to the prompt regexp. When you enable outline-minor-mode you'll be able to collapse / expand commands as you please, or jump back to a certain command with `consult-outline`.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/e2u5n9/comment/f918t22/

A small code snippet to configure this:

https://apps.bram85.nl/gitea/bram/gists/src/commit/84d40cdb8a82a29b4da92bca2d9b81de4e7d11e2/gists/outline-minor-mode-eshell.el

#emacs