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WEBVTT captioned by sachac
NOTE Intro
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Hello everyone. Welcome to my talk.
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I am Akib Azmain Turja and my talk is titled
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"Eat and Eat-powered Eshell:
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Fast, featureful terminal inside Emacs."
NOTE Benchmarking
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So I just claimed that Eat is a fast terminal emulator.
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Let me show you that. I will print a 1-megabyte sized file
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in the terminal using this command.
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It takes 0.76 seconds. Now let's benchmark term-mode.
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I will be in term -mode. I use the same command,
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and it's clearly the loser.
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It took 12 seconds, more than an order of magnitude slower.
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Let's also measure the speed of return.
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And it took 0.79 seconds.
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But this is actually a little bit slower than Eat.
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Why? That shouldn't happen.
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Anyway, hopefully that shows how fast Eat is.
NOTE Running programs
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So let's run some extra programs in Eat,
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like top. You can also run htop or even btop.
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There is a fancy version of top.
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And obviously you can run Emacs in it.
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There is mouse support, and there is true color support.
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You can show any color in the terminal
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as long as your main display supports it.
NOTE Shell integration
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And then there is shell integration.
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For example, directory tracking.
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Like, I can switch to some other directory
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and Emacs follows the shell directory.
NOTE Prompt annotation
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Then there is prompt annotation,
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this column. These zeros indicate
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that the command has executed successfully.
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Then you can navigate between commands like this.
NOTE Message passing
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There is message passing.
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By message passing, I mean sending something
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from the terminal to the host Emacs.
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By host Emacs, I mean Emacs running the terminal.
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For example I can say "hi" and it's showing "hi"
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in this echo area of my Emacs.
NOTE Shell integration
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Then let's show you the killer feature of Eat,
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Eat's shell integration.
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You can run any program in it. For example: top, btop,
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and obviously Emacs itself.
NOTE Input modes
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So let's discuss how to use Eat. There are four input modes.
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The first one is semi-char mode. That is the default mode.
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This is like vterm. All keys are the same to your terminal
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except these keys: C-c, C-x, C-g, M-x, etc.
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And then there is char-mode, where all keys
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are same to your terminal, except this M-RET key
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which takes you back to the semi-char mode.
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Then there is Emacs mode where you can select
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and copy from the terminal buffer.
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And finally, there is line mode.
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You can use it to use your terminal like a comint buffer.
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All these input modes are available in both Eat
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and eat-eshell mode, except this line mode--
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it's only available on Eat.
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By "on Eat", I mean the terminal you get
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by this eat command. By eshell, I mean
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when eat-eshell integration is enabled
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inside the eshell buffer.
NOTE Documentation
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There is an info manual,
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And also the README is quite informative
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for you to get started.
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If you hit any problem,
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there is a dedicated chapter for debugging that,
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a common problems chapter.
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If your problem is still not fixed,
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please report it to me.
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This helps me improve it for everyone.
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When you report, please read this chapter
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so that you can make a better bug report.
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I am really looking forward to how people use it
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in their workflow.
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I am excited about that.
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Hopefully you enjoyed my talk. That was all.
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Enjoy EmacsConf. Goodbye.
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