From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Run multiple shells in Emacs. Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:23:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87pmx6cws0.fsf@telefonica.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14755"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LPJEl7DIYBByzOwprdvXuudLutA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 01 01:24:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lnrH8-0003eT-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:24:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36092 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnrH7-0000lm-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 19:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnrGU-0000jj-R7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 19:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnrGS-0008Dh-D3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 19:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lnrGP-0002gk-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:24:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130402 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao writes: > What's the preferable way to open multiple shell windows at the same > time in Emacs? > > After searching with Google, I find the discussion here: > > > > Basically, there are two types of methods to accomplish this: > > 1. Write a simple function, just as the one suggested on the above website: > > (defun create-shell () > "creates a shell with a given name" > (interactive);; "Prompt\n shell name:") > (let ((shell-name (read-string "shell name: " nil))) > (shell (concat "*" shell-name "*")))) > > 2. Use an Emacs plugin/package, and I've found the following one: > . > > What are the recommended ways to use Emacs based on this kind of technique? Aweshell does a lot of things and works with Eshell, not `shell' as your first method. Plain `eshell' already supports multiple instances (see its docstring), as well as `shell' (see its docstring). So if you want to open multiple shell buffers, you don't need neither a new function nor a new package.