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+title = "Emacs as a Shell"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2023-04-13T23:00:00+02:00
+categories = ["emacs"]
+draft = false
+weight = 3001
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+abstract = "My current understanding of Emacs"
+aliases = ["/2023/emacs-as-a-shell/", "/emacs/emacs-as-a-shell/"]
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+Pavel Korytov writes in his [recent post](https://sqrtminusone.xyz/posts/2023-04-13-emacs/);
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+> So over time, Emacs has become my programming environment, email client, window manager, knowledge base, and a lot more. I think I ended up using Emacs for almost as many things as possible;
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+This is where I want to be in the near future. So far I've moved my development environment and email to Emacs. Next up are notes, RSS reading, and music listening.
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+What I love about Emacs is the consistency between modes/packages. They accomplish widely different things, but the general control scheme is the same. It's great since all TUI programs I use tend to support Vim's way of doing things. Having it all inside Emacs changes the dynamic. I'm trying to think of Emacs as a shell rather than an editor.
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+What Emacs really is, is a virtual machine running LISP code. Some say that Emacs violates Linux philosophy. I don't see it this way. Does shell violate it? It's also a way to run different programs. Emacs is an abstraction over real shell which adds some calm to it. It's a way to have an interactive layer over OS... which also does text editing.
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+So, when you look at it this way, Emacs makes a lot of sense:
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+-   It runs programs. Bigger packages, like Magit, are nothing short of real programs.
+-   It's scriptable. Elisp all the way!
+-   It allows for interoperability between programs.
+-   It runs above basic OS. You can replace your window manager with Emacs, but you need some sort of kernel.
+-   You can live entirely inside Emacs, just like you can live entirely inside a terminal.