Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:27:47AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>[ please CC me when replying to me ]
>
>On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Dan Espen
><daneNO@more.mk.spamtelcordia.com> wrote:
>> Compiles are M-x compile, greps are M-x grep,
>> ls is dired, email is MH-E.
>
>But what would you suggest as replacement for:
>
>$ make && gdb || mail -s "Compilation failed" home
>
>More generally sh scripts allow automatisation processes that you
>can't simply do with emacs commands, it similar to using a mouse
>actually. I don't think you can get rid of them.
>
>Futhermore there are a lot of tools out there that are not integrated
>to emacs if you do so, you don't have enough keys on the keyboard to
>create bindings ;)
>
>So I don't think you can realistically get rid of a shell
>
>> Maybe most emacs users aren't that committed to M-x shell and
>> it's friends.
>
>Probably.
>
>So for now I don't think I can forget Gnu Screen: one screen to handle
>a terminal with a shell where all my ncurse based applications can
>work properly and another screen where emacs lives.
>

On the subject of GNU screen and emacs: Bill Clementson wrote a good
entry on using emacsclient and screen -
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/071001.html

Regarding mutt with emacs, there is a page on the emacswiki you may
want to read:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/MuttInEmacs

It may also possibly be necessary to adjust the colour scheme used in
.muttrc:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg21810.html

Personally, I have been using gnu-screen with an emacs server running
in one window and mutt in another window, based on what Bill
Clementson wrote.

Regards,
Jonathan