Moving efficiently in the CLI

Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by 0x445442 on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:11PM (#16244632)

I've used Emacs off and on for years now. But I can never get to that place where I get totally emersed because of the clunky terminal/shell story. I've tried eshell but what always gets me is having to C-c while in the terminal or eshell to get back to a different buffer.

I prefer M-x and fuzzy function entry to key bindings and when I'm in a terminal buffer or eshell I always go for M-x which won't work.

Any tips would be appreciated as I really like everything else about Emacs.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by sedachv on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:42AM (#16245398)

term and ansi-term bind the whole keyboard, but eshell and shell don't. Are you sure you are really running eshell?

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by hibbelig on Saturday January 27, 2018 @09:35AM (#16246345)

I used to have a command “vi” in eshell that basically ran find-file. It took some getting used to using Emacs keys after invoking a command vi, but it worked.

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