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 No.854800[Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>tfw you use a VM of arch in ubuntu just so you can use arch's terminal

 No.854805>>854876

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>tfw you do everything in Emacs just so you can avoid Unix's command line


 No.854812

>Arch's terminal

whut


 No.854859

Better question: How do you get Debian's to look like OpenBSD's? It's the fonts. They're really sweet.


 No.854876>>854969 >>854978

>>854805

This is actually true of me except unironically. I haven't touched the bash prompt in what has to be years, nor have I touched any of bash's incestuous cousins, fish and zsh. It actually took me a while to realize that I didn't have much of a reason to script in bash anymore other than the fact that I liked to, since I could get away with using far superior scripting languages to far better ends. I use eshell, which is still, obviously, superficially comparable to bash, but, the thing is, eshell is an actual, literal mode within bash, and everything you do through eshell goes through emacs' tiny C core and is communicated directly to the kernel and filesystem, the same way you might with any other shell. Except it's better than a shell, because I can interface with it the same way I can with any other emacs buffer; e.g. I can use modes like smartparens and they don't fuck up. Helm-eshell-history is fantastic. Once you get a taste of what it's like to incorporate a sophisticated incremental completion and selection narrowing framework like helm into your tab completion, it makes Zsh's tab completion look like a fucking joke. Their plugins ecosystem? Child's play. I don't have to deal with the autism that is cutting and pasting to and from the clipboard by proxy of a stupid terminal emulator--all the text in my clipboard gets pooled into the Emacs killring (that I can interface with via helm-yank, by the way) automatically--not that it matters, since Emacs is my window manager, so I do everything in Emacs anyway. Oh, and did I also mention that eshell can emulate fish's syntax highlighting and autosuggestions?


 No.854969

>>854876

>not using a lisp/scheme/racket type shell in CY


 No.854978>>854999

>>854876

I was exaggerating, but not being ironic. Unix is awful. Emacs is also awful, but in different ways, so I sometimes use it as a refuge.

I prefer fish to eshell, but that's without trying to make eshell more like fish. What do you need for that?


 No.854999>>855006

>>854978

Because part of the reason contrarian retards cling to Zsh and Fish are the shallow novelties that have to be reimplemented from shell to shell in typical Unix fashion. None of that's an issue in Emacs because the ecosystem is so consumate. Also, it looks cool.

Also, openwith lets me open any file I want without even having to remember what application I need to use to open it.

>inb4 mime-types

Rather than manually, tediously toggling every single mime-type to open with the appropriate application, I can express that all in regexp, which also means I can associate filetypes with more complicated hooks like "mpv --profile=audio".


 No.855006>>855013

>>854999

You misunderstand - I was asking you about your setup, not about why you like Emacs.


 No.855013

>>855006

esh-autosuggest




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