Re: zsh outside of Emacs (was: Why do we need a number of different terminal modes in Emacs?)

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
...
> However, this confirms my habit of using a Terminal emulator, with
> GNU/screen[1], together with a great set-up of zsh[2].

You can use GNU Screen and Zsh and connect to them using M-x term.  That
puts them within Emacs, but Screen should make things safe from Emac's
crashes.

As I was saying in another thread, there's a bit about doing it with
Screen here http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuScreen , there are couple
of gotchas and things you have to setup in Screen's rc file.

> Unfortunately, my GNU/Emacs tends to be very unstable[3] so that I
> have to kill and re-start it several times a day. I handle this by
> having a very tight auto-save-interval. Losing all of my open shell
> sessions would be a disaster.

Have you bisected your init file?

Even for an intermittant bug that can help a lot.  Let's say you cut out
half of your init file and work with Emacs for a few hours.  If the problem
doesn't happen you can be pretty sure it's in the cut out bit.  If it
does happen you can be sure it's in the bit left.  If you're getting
crashes about four times a day then you can make a bisect decision every
couple of hours.  So you should be able to identify the 1/8th or 1/16th
of you init file that's to blame :).

BR,
Rob