From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Optimal emacs shell for coding Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20080811113854.GD8149@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218454773 20048 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2008 11:39:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:39:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 11 13:40:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSVlA-0004D6-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSVkE-00016y-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSVjs-00016X-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSVjo-00014N-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41480 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSVjo-00014B-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([67.18.176.185]:58081) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSVjo-0007aM-2q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D9C56258F0; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:54 +0200 (SAST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (Linux mail 2.6.18.8-linode10 i686) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56450 Archived-At: I know of only three ways to get an emacs shell: M-x terminal-emulator M-x shell M-x eshell (There is also M-x shell-command RET) Question is, which one is best for coding? Lately I've found myself opening up an xterm session to do miscellaneous coding support tasks - and am mostly struggling with different readline history keybindings (eg. I'm used to entering C-r at a shell to get (reverse-i-search) - obviously in an emacs shell this will have a dfferent outcome to what I desire! Any recommendations? Many thanks, Jonathan Groll.