Re: zsh outside of Emacs

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Emanuel puts it well; that sort of integrated interface and the ability to put emacs tools to use on my bash output has served me many, many times. It's hard for me to go back to a "dumb terminal" (to use the term ironically) now...

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> Sorry, I meant what advantages do I get compared to
>> a separate Terminal emulation running my GNU screen
>> sessions?
>>
>> I don't see much difference between Alt-TAB +
>> XOrg-copy&paste and C-x b + Emacs-copy&paste
>
> It is not only a matter of copy and paste back and
> forth! If that is your only concern the whole system
> is integrated as it is.
>
> No, if you have any data in an Emacs buffer, you can
> immediately put all of Emacs to work on that data,
> just as you can put all of Emacs to (re)produce it.
> And this can be automatized big with no glue in
> between.
>
> Now that sounded really advanced but it can be really
> down to Earth things. You will experience the benefits
> of an integrated interface with common input methods
> and documentation/configuration very soon if you
> didn't already.