grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb) writes: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:53:36 -0400, D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote: > >| c) A console to execute ad-hoc commands. > > >sort of, with the ':!' command. Emacs can have a buffer with a shell > >running in it (and still use other buffers). (can vim have a > >persistant buffer like that?) > > A console to run ad-hoc commands? You mean like clicking on the rxvt > button and having one there? Erm, no X/GUI? How about ALT-F2, ALT-F3? :) > I fail to see why a persistant buffer is needed. Needed? Perhaps not. But extremely convenient. The key is that the shell is in a standard editor buffer, and thus you interact with it identically to any other editor buffer - while terrific for moving text around between the shell and your development, you also have editor macros, scripts and so on that can post-process shell output. All while staying consistently within the Emacs environment. And of course, in Python mode, you can have a customized Python shell running the interpreter that you can automatically transfer and execute code from another editor buffer with one key sequence, and interact with that interpreter environment as an editor buffer. As noted above, it's probably not needed, but I know that for me I sure am more productive having it. -- -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l at fitlinxx.com / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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