Archive for March 13, 2008

I want a new terminal

One that wont make me sick
One that wont make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick

gnome-terminal sucks. The keybindings are semi-emacs-ish but not quite/frequently get confused/don’t update the display to accurately reflect whatever’s in the buffer. What should I use? xterm doesn’t support emacs keybindings at all so it’s out. Should I just be sticking with eshell (or shell) directly inside emacs?

Here’s what I want:

  • standard, simple movement commands (^a, ^e, ^f, ^b, up/down arrow)
  • tab completion (duh…)
  • standard, simple editing (M-d, ^k)

I think I probably just got my answer and it’s to use M-x eshell or M-x shell, but I don’t always have that available and would really love something I can fallback on. I’m sure somebody must have some advice…

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