Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel by trashface on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:19PM (#35644850)

Been a long time since I used emacs (had to stop, it was hurting my pinky) but I did use M-x shell a lot, I always thought it ran bash but from this description I understand emacs has its own shell?!

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Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel by excircul on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:59PM (#35647018)

M-x shell does run bash (or whatever is your user’s shell)

M-x eshell is a shell implemented completely in Emacs Lisp and integrates with Emacs really nicely

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Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel by dinom on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:18PM (#35648296)

Did you try swapping or replacing capslock w/ ctrl? Something like this...

    setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
    xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Control_R"

I would occasionally experience some pinky pain until I did this. Losing capslock is mostly inconsequential (you can always use upcase-region).

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Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel by kagevf on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:17AM (#35649768)

This is a useful guide to the different shells in emacs:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-ema...

(the whole site has lots of information about emacs)

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