powerline VS dtache

Powerline (and airline, as well as all plugins of that kind) offers, among other things, a GUI that helps you manage buffers and tabs. There are plugins that do just that and nothing else, which are best used alongside powerline/airline/etc, for example bufferline.

Powerline Provides a much nicer status line in Vim, including integration with Git to tell you what branch you’re on and the tracking status of the file you’re working on.

powerline includes prompts for bash and zsh that include git info. (despite selling itself as a vim statusline, I believe you can use its shell prompts without using it with vim.)

Could also be a patched font. Some fonts use the private use area of unicode to draw glyphs for use in interface. Check out for example these patched fonts for Powerline on GitHub. Powerline is a status line plugin for vim and it uses text to draw the interface. If you download one, drop it on a font visualizer e.g. fontdrop.info you'll see a range of specific glyphs inside the private use area (E000–F8FF). There's even an Ubuntu logo at E0FF.

You are wrong

Wait until you discover that you can apply powerline to both of them

IBM Plex is an interesting font that I'm looking forward to, and I would like to try it out. However, you may be in similar setup as I am, which relays on Powerline glyphs in order to display vim/statusline/prompt correctly.

Looks like I installed this one via apt-get. To use it, I have this in my ~/.config/fish/fish.config:

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 :)