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# A tour of vterm
Gabriele Bozzola (@sbozzolo)

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Vterm is a fast and fully capable terminal emulator in GNU Emacs built
as a dynamic module on top of libvterm.  In this talk, I will give an
overview of the package.  I will discuss the installation and common
customizations.  I will go into details on some of the most important
features, such as directory tracking or message passing.  Finally, I
will touch upon known incompatibilities and the future directions of
the project.

URL: <https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm>

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# Questions

## Q5: Does/will this work with 'emacs -nw'?
Yes, it does.

## Q4: Thats a nice looking prompt, do you have it on a Git repo we could see, or something of that manner? Thanks, I use Bash right now so I didn't know it was the default on the others.
It is not the default, but it is available easily with oh-my-zsh or
similar on fish. I think the prompt is this:
<https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure>

## Q3: Is there a plan to avoid the initial compilation step?
Not any time soon. You will have to compile vterm the first time you
start it.

## Q2: What are differences between Eshell and vterm?
Performance. vterm is like xterm but in Emacs, Eshell is like Bash but
in Emacs.

<https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm#given-that-eshell-shell-and-ansi-term-are-emacs-built-in-why-should-i-use-vterm>

## Q1: Could you put your testing scripts up somewhere?
- 256colors: <https://pastebin.com/j6HF5q8T>
- title: <https://pastebin.com/SByKdJM2>
- I cannot pastebin the 1MB of data, I pasted a sample of it:
  <https://pastebin.com/n1T3aUff>

# Notes
<https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm>