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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>
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