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Is it possible instead of loading /bin/bash, for my terminal to load emacs or emacsclient when I open it up, with a session for eshell? And is it feasible to ssh->screen from an emacs session without running into problems?
I want to do this purely to learn about emacs being as I like it so much.
No hate text, etc please :)
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Emacs comes with its own shell (as in, like bash or zsh ) written in entirely in Emacs-Lisp. The shell, named Eshell, is a feature-rich replacement for your standard-fare shells like bash with the added bonus of working on any platform Emacs runs on.
You can start an interactive shell in Emacs by typing M-x shell . By default, this will start the standard Windows shell cmd.exe . Emacs uses the SHELL environment variable to determine which program to use as the shell.
Eshell is a shell-like command interpreter implemented in Emacs Lisp. It invokes no external processes except for those requested by the user.
You can execute an external shell command from within Emacs using ` M-! ' ( 'shell-command' ). The output from the shell command is displayed in the minibuffer or in a separate buffer, depending on the output size.
emacs -f eshell
EDIT: If you don't want to start a new emacs you can use emacsclient.
emacsclient -e '(eshell)'
Make sure you have started the server the best way to do it is to add
(server-start) in your . emacs
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You can set your shell to /usr/bin/emacs (or wherever it is) to make it your default shell. It will probably act weird though since Emacs is not a shell. It's an editor. Programs expect your shell to behave in a certain fashion and Emacs won't work that way.
You can do an M-xtermret to get a terminal from which you can connect to a remote machine and start a screen. I don't know about the quality of the emulation though. No harm trying.
Neither of these look useful to me and the former is definitely a trouble maker.
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