From d69cab4543a21dbda2e9115e2a7a1804cfe74942 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:05:58 -0400 Subject: add eat --- 2023/talks/eat.md | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2023/talks/eat.md (limited to '2023/talks') diff --git a/2023/talks/eat.md b/2023/talks/eat.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2dbc381 --- /dev/null +++ b/2023/talks/eat.md @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +[[!meta title="Eat and Eat powered Eshell, fast featureful terminal inside Emacs"]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Akib Azmain Turja"]] +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/eat-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + + + + +# Eat and Eat powered Eshell, fast featureful terminal inside Emacs +Akib Azmain Turja (he/him) - IRC: akib, Fediverse: akib@hostux.social (I'm on some unethical proprietary social media, but there's hardly any chance that I'll respond within a reasonable amount of time.), + +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/eat-before)" raw="yes"]] + +Eat is a terminal emulator for Emacs, written in pure Emacs Lisp. It +can run most (if not all) terminal programs. Despite being implemented +in Emacs Lisp, it is fast enough for day-to-day uses. + +In this talk, I'll give an overview of Eat, its features and +configuration. I'll show the most useful features and the features that +make Eat unique (e.g. shell integration, mouse tracking, Sixel support). +(This may include features that hasn't been implemented yet but will be +implemented and stable enough by the time of the recording of the talk.) +Most of the features require no configuration to use, but are +configurable with user options. I'll also show the most useful +customization options available that users may want to customize or +tinker with. + +Thanks to the architecture of Eat, Eat can emulate terminal within any +region of a buffer. Therefore, Eat can be integrated with Eshell. I'll +show how to integrate Eat with Eshell, and the useful Eshell-specific +features and configuration. + +Then, I'll compare Eat with other terminal emulators available for +Emacs, and I'll show which feature that Eat has but the other doesn't, +and which feature Eat lacks. I'll show why Eat is good or bad for some +users/use cases. For example, why Shell mode users may prefer Coterm (a +terminal emulator for Comint) over Eat, why Eat is better Term mode in +the most cases, or why Vterm should be prefered for huge bursts of +outputs, etc. + +Then I'll give pointers to the documentation available like the Info +manual or README and what they contain. And I'll also discuss what to +do when you hit a problem. I'll discuss about the common problems or +misconfiguration, and also discuss where and how to report bugs +properly. I won't go into much details in this part, since the manual +covers this topic completely, and the users are expected to not +encounter problems. + +Then I'll discuss the future plans of the project. And finally, I'll +conclude the talk with a summary of the whole talk. + +Outline: + +- Introduction: What's Eat and why? +- Installing Eat from NonGNU ELPA +- Demonstrating Eat's features and configuring them +- Eshell integration +- Comparison with other terminal emulators +- Shortcomings and common (fixable) problems +- Future plans +- Conclusion + + + +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/eat-after)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/eat-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + -- cgit v1.2.3