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Emacs as a Shell

Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, christopher@librehacker.com

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Format: 38-min talk; Q&A: IRC https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf
Discuss on IRC: #emacsconf
Status: Ready to stream

Times in different time zones:
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~1:55 PM - 2:35 PM EST (US/Eastern)
which is the same as:
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~12:55 PM - 1:35 PM CST (US/Central)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~11:55 AM - 12:35 PM MST (US/Mountain)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~10:55 AM - 11:35 AM PST (US/Pacific)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~6:55 PM - 7:35 PM UTC
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~7:55 PM - 8:35 PM CET (Europe/Paris)
Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~8:55 PM - 9:35 PM EET (Europe/Athens)
Sunday, Dec 8 2024, ~12:25 AM - 1:05 AM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
Sunday, Dec 8 2024, ~2:55 AM - 3:35 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)
Sunday, Dec 8 2024, ~3:55 AM - 4:35 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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Description

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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