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Split the screen: c-x 2, 2nd window in shell-mode with M-x shell, everything is fine. Am i missing something here?

This article is mostly about using emacs -nw which will depend on a bunch of things like how terminal input is handled! With regular Emacs, as a GUI, I typically split as well but I prefer vterm over M-x shell.

I usually use `emacsclient -nw` inside a terminal (sometimes over mosh). I've found eat[1] to be much a better than vterm at being a terminal emulator inside Emacs (inside a terminal). It flickers less, and seems to handle key forwarding a lot better. The only downside is it's slightly slower than vterm at handling a large chunk of data (e.g. cat an access log).

[1]: https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

Sorry for the tangent: I was very eager to try vterm until I read that people have had issues with evil-mode [1]. Any idea whether eat and evil can get along?

[1] https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues/313

It works somewhat more reliable (I've found vterm to break in some interesting ways depending on your cursor position even with evil-collection), but it's pretty awkward to use with evil, at least without any configuration.

For example, pressing 0 to go to beginning of line goes to before the $PS1, rather than the input beginning, going from NORMAL → INSERT inserts text at the end instead of at the cursor, Emacs motion keys doesn't work, etc. I think if I take some time to remap the key it might work, but usually I just switch to Emacs mode or just restrict myself to use only cursor key to navigate.

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