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From: andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: better shells flow and integration
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 19:35:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF_E5JbjhnOeKjYpBQyWx25cGMGX2GvdwpACmmE3PcCxgZ5mFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi guys,
I'm in a weird mix situation in the way I use terminals.

I try to stay all the time inside emacs using shell-mode, which has the
great advantage of copying and pasting around easily and have all the
text transformation things in place.

However sometimes it's not all good, because:
- it's a bit hard to organize terminals in an easy and coherent way
  (could make more frames but it's a bit annoying)

- running long term processes is a bit risky if I have to restart the
  window manager or Emacs for some reason

- when some command has a LOT of output (sometimes unexpectedly) the
  shell buffer become unresponsive for a while (this is an issue with
  other repl as well), and in plus the shell becomes very slow after I
  have a lot of output there (thousands of lines).


So for some things I tend to use tmux and terminator, which are cool but
are not inside Emacs sadly.

Trying to find some ways to improve the flow:
1. is there a way to avoid these unresponsive moments and/or limit the
   number of lines in the shell (or other similar) buffer?

2. alternatively maybe can I integrate Emacs and tmux?
   Actually as soon as I thought about this I found a few things:
   http://bradylove.com/blog/2013/05/24/commanding-tmux-with-emacs/
   And a couple of packages in ELPA, so I'll try that out.

It would be nice to have a bidirectional integration though, so be able
to see also what's happening in the tmux sessions from Emacs.

Any suggestions?



             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-01 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01 19:35 andrea crotti [this message]
2015-02-01 22:30 ` better shells flow and integration Robert Thorpe

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