From 8a80c4593f066f986e02ca5233fc5a59097d5a67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 09:34:18 -0500 Subject: update pads and include original links for now --- 2023/talks/eat.md | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) (limited to '2023/talks/eat.md') diff --git a/2023/talks/eat.md b/2023/talks/eat.md index 9d7d14d8..e917460d 100644 --- a/2023/talks/eat.md +++ b/2023/talks/eat.md @@ -62,6 +62,77 @@ Outline: - Conclusion +# Discussion + +## Questions and answers + +- Q: Have you thought about upstreaming EAT? + - A: Yes, but I haven\'t yet completed the copyright paperwork. + - S: Look into it, I think it would be great to have a better + implementation of a terminal OOTB! +- Q: Very impressive!  What lessons did you learn while developing + EAT? + - A:I learned how to optimize Elisp code, and also how terminals + work actually.  And also process handling in Elisp. +- Q: How long did it take you to develop EAT to this point? + - A:It took around 5 months to make it working at bare minimum. + - Q: Did you have any experience with terminal emulation + before working on EAT? + - A:Not much really.  I mean I knew how terminals worked + but I didn\'t know the escape sequences. +- Q:Impressive work; I look forward to trying it.  What did you want + that Vterm did not provide?  I think I\'ll try it today. + - A:The keybindings, specially.  And also I wanted Eshell terminal + emulation. +- Q: Is Elisp native-compilation what allows EAT to peform as well as + or better than Vterm, or is EAT even that fast with just + byte-compilation? + - A:I use native-compilation.  But Eat is still quite a few times + faster than Term mode when byte-compiled. +- Q: Should it work on Emacs 28.1? + - A:Yes. +- Q: What does EAT do differently than other terminal emulators that + allows it to perform so well? + - A:I don\'t really know quite clearly.  At the time I implemented + the main code, I had plenty of time.  I did profiling and tried + various implementations to do the same thing. +- Q: what sparked your interest in Emacs, considering its often + perceived as outdated, and how do its powerful capabilities remain + relevant today? + - A: First of all, it\'s free software, I have the freedom.  And + the IDEs I used to use were resource hogs, so needed something + lightweight.  And, after I started using Emacs, I discovered how + powerful it actually is.  Emacs is itself a programming + platform, so you can make literally anything with it. +- Q: have you thought about making EAT work with shell-mode? + - A: Yes, I have considered integrating with shell-mode/Comint but + it doesn\'t work, they need the terminal text to be mutable and + Eat doesn\'t support that.  So I have implemented \"line mode,\" + an input mode similar to shell-mode. +- Q: did the talk show how to show sixel? + +## Notes + +- I found out about EAT a while ago and was excited to find out that + it works so well! Thank you for your great work! +- akib, truly impressive! +- :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap: +- ¡Muy bueno! +- I use eat, and I have almost replace terminal (bash/zsh) with eshell paired with eat +- i use eat but i don't really have anything to say cuz i don't use the CLI nearly as much anymore since learning more emacs stuff. but i still think eat is awesome cuz it is really fast for when i do need it +- I'll be looking into eat more, thanks for the talk! +- demonstrating sixels would have been a surprise for some... +- eat is very easy to try out compared to vterm since there's no foreign code involved +- I was stunned at how fast eat is! +- even without native-comp, it's pretty fast +- eat is the apple equivalent of terminal emulators in emacs: It just works! ;) +- best of both world is, eshell paired with eat +- + - I usd img2sixel wnd some awk glue + - imagemagick can also convert to sixel +- you're the one who helped me with eat and the dumb term line for .zshrc so ty! +- speaker: yes, i have considering integrating with shell-mode/comint but it doesn't work, they need the terminal text to be mutable and eat doesn't support that so i have implemented "line mode," input mode similar to shell mode + [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/eat-after)" raw="yes"]] -- cgit v1.2.3