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# Emacs as a Shell
Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, <mailto:christopher@librehacker.com>

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A shell, such as Bash, is fundamentally an
interface to your operating system. It allows you
to run programs, direct I/O, manage processes, and
interact with the file system, as well as script
such activities. Allowing for a few caveats, we
can see that Emacs is capable of doing all these
things, and therefore Emacs can be used a
practical replacement for the traditional shell.
This talk aims to explain this philosophy, to
explore Emacs' basic shell functionality, and to
address various caveats.



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