emacs-piper VS dtache

[1] https://gitlab.com/howardabrams/emacs-piper

I use a similar tool in Emacs called piper https://gitlab.com/howardabrams/emacs-piper

And here's the EmacsConf video for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJMDJ4i-XI

I wouldn't do it simply because there are some things for which it doesn't work best such as using tmux over it and I haven't yet bothered to read & setup dtache which would solve that problem.

Another thing is why people may want to see the whole 10Mb compilation log in realtime? Redirect it to a file, M-x grep the things you need, and you are perfectly fine. There's also https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache

GNU Screen, tmux and dtach (with convenient Emacs interface) all serve to limit that problem.

Have a look at https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache

Here is a short blog post illustrating how dtache, the package for detached shell commands https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache, can be integrated with vterm.

Regarding 4), that's what got me into developing dtache https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache. Could be an alternative if you want to avoid leaving Emacs :)

There is a version 0.4 out for the **dtache** package. The short description of the package is that it provides the possibility to run commands that are detached from Emacs. To read more see the README here https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache. The major changes compared to the last release is:

The other day I merged an extension to integrate dtache with consult. The dtache is the package for detachable shell commands https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache. The functionality is opt in, and provided through the dtache-consult.el.

You can read more about, and see some examples of dtache-eshell in action at https://niklaseklund.gitlab.io/blog/posts/dtache_eshell/, and if you are looking for the source code you will find it here https://gitlab.com/niklaseklund/dtache :)