emacs-libvterm VS shx-for-emacs

Compare emacs-libvterm vs shx-for-emacs and see what are their differences.

shx-for-emacs

An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp. (by riscy)
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5.4 4.1
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Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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emacs-libvterm

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-libvterm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-26.
  • Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2024
    > 3. Terminals

    Since you use Emacs, why not use Eat or vterm?

    https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

    https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm

    > 4. File Manager (gui)

    Why not Dired?

  • Increasing productivity by better managing multiple terminals in Emacs
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2024
  • Modern Python REPL in Emacs using VTerm
    5 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2024
    From my jolly Julia days I’m used to julia-vterm. This emacs package runs a Julia REPL using a full terminal emulator (emacs-libvterm). So in the pursuit of a nice hack, I M-x replace-string’d the word juliawith python and gave it a shot. Remarkably, the whole thing just worked without much tweaking and you can enjoy the result by checking out the GitHub repo.
  • bash scripts i use daily currently (for non-emacs terminal)
    1 project | /r/emacs | 11 May 2023
    Also, look into vterm_prompt_end to get this updated vterm-buffer-local anytime your prompt emits the cwd. https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
  • Emacs couldn't render terminal characters
    1 project | /r/emacs | 27 Apr 2023
    Emacs or term? If the latter, I'd recommend using vterm if it is a possibility for you - https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
  • BASH, ZSH, FISH. How about Eshell?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 20 Jan 2023
    They are actually working on even better Emacs integration. Granted, vterm is an external library, so there will always be a layer between the editor and the terminal.
  • libvterm directory tracking not working?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Dec 2022
    I've followed the steps shown in the README: sh vterm_printf() { if [ -n "$TMUX" ] && ([ "${TERM%%-*}" = "tmux" ] || [ "${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ]); then # Tell tmux to pass the escape sequences through printf "\ePtmux;\e\e]%s\007\e\\" "$1" elif [ "${TERM%%-*}" = "screen" ]; then # GNU screen (screen, screen-256color, screen-256color-bce) printf "\eP\e]%s\007\e\\" "$1" else printf "\e]%s\e\\" "$1" fi } vterm_prompt_end() { vterm_printf "51;A$(whoami)@$(hostname):$(pwd)" } setopt PROMPT_SUBST PROMPT=$PROMPT'%{$(vterm_prompt_end)%}' but it is simply not working.
  • Help wanted: Zsh completion like Vertico+Orderless
    10 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Dec 2022
    [1]https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/fzf [2]https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k [3]https://starship.rs/ [4]https://github.com/tmux/tmux [5]https://github.com/ahendriksen/ob-tmux [6]https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm [7]https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm
  • Emacs 29 is nigh What can we expect?
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
  • two weeks with emacs as a vimmer
    11 projects | /r/emacs | 31 Oct 2022
    Have checked out https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm? It has everything you need to know. Since you are a developer I expect it will be easy for you. Thanks for sharing your experience:)

shx-for-emacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of shx-for-emacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.
  • How I use Emacs to write Perl
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Aug 2022
    I use the wonderful shx package for making M-x shell a more usable shell, and I use shell-pop for popping up shell buffers that are automatically cd'd to the current files directory.
  • Running Shells and Terminal Emulators in Emacs
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Jul 2022
    I swear by running bash in shell-mode enhanced by shx so I can properly use SSH.
  • Lisp (particularly Scheme) aware editor
    8 projects | /r/lisp | 19 Jun 2022
    Also note that Emacs is a fully GUI application, like I said, it depends on libgdk and libcairo2, and Emacs has support for inline graphics. Take a look at the shx-for-emacs extension to see an example of it (screenshot). Please take a look at Nicolas P. Rougier's GitHub page, he has some of the most beautiful Emacs GUI configurations (for example, this screenshot).
  • Package similar to vim Visual mode/Normal mode and tmux?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 28 Jan 2022
    Here is link number 1 - Previous text "shx"
  • Improving shell in emacs
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Jan 2022
    I have been extremely satisfied with using plain shell mode combined with shx. With shx I can open a file directly from the shell with :edit, and ssh with :ssh. I find that a plain old shell running bash when combined with emacs is just so powerful.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing emacs-libvterm and shx-for-emacs you can also consider the following projects:

evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode

able - Lisp editor in Tk - https://common-lisp.net/project/able/

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager

mistty - Shell/Comint alternative with a fully functional terminal for Emacs 29.1 and later.

vterm-toggle - toggles between the vterm buffer and whatever buffer you are editing.

shell-pop-el - shell-pop.el helps you to use shell easily on Emacs. Only one key action to work.

multi-vterm - Managing multiple vterm buffers in Emacs

dotfiles - My dotfiles

marginalia - :scroll: marginalia.el - Marginalia in the minibuffer

selected.el - Keymap for when region is active

beacon - A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it!

pcmpl-args.el - Enhanced shell completion in Emacs

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