NonGNU-devel ELPA - eat

To start Eat, run M-x eat. Eat has four input modes:

• "semi-char" mode: This is the default input mode. Most keys are bound to send the key to the terminal, except the following keys: C-\, C-c, C-x, C-g, C-h, C-M-c, C-u, C-q, M-x, M-:, M-!, M-& and some other keys (see the user option eat-semi-char-non-bound-keys for the complete list). The following special keybinding are available:
  • C-q: Send next key to the terminal.
  • C-y: Like `yank', but send the text to the terminal.
  • M-y: Like `yank-pop', but send the text to the terminal.
  • C-c C-k: Kill process.
  • C-c C-e: Switch to "emacs" input mode.
  • C-c M-d: Switch to "char" input mode.
  • C-c C-l: Switch to "line" input mode.
• "emacs" mode: No special keybinding, except the following:
  • C-c C-j: Switch to "semi-char" input mode.
  • C-c M-d: Switch to "char" input mode.
  • C-c C-l: Switch to "line" input mode.
  • C-c C-k: Kill process.
• "char" mode: All supported keys are bound to send the key to the terminal, except C-M-m or M-RET, which is bound to switch to "semi-char" input mode.
• "line" mode: Similar to Comint, Shell mode and Term line mode. In this input mode, terminal input is sent one line at once, and you can edit input line using the usual Emacs commands.
  • C-c C-e: Switch to "emacs" input mode
  • C-c C-j: Switch to "semi-char" input mode.
  • C-c M-d: Switch to "char" input mode.

If you like Eshell, then there is a good news for you. Eat integrates with Eshell. Eat has two global minor modes for Eshell:

• eat-eshell-visual-command-mode: Run visual commands with Eat instead of Term.
• eat-eshell-mode: Run Eat inside Eshell. After enabling this, you can run full-screen terminal programs directly in Eshell. You have the above input modes here too, except line mode and that C-c C-k is not special (i.e. not bound by Eat) in "emacs" mode and "line" mode.

You can add any of these to eshell-load-hook like the following:

;; For `eat-eshell-mode'.
(add-hook 'eshell-load-hook #'eat-eshell-mode)

;; For `eat-eshell-visual-command-mode'.
(add-hook 'eshell-load-hook #'eat-eshell-visual-command-mode)

To setup shell integration for GNU Bash, put the following at the end of your .bashrc:

#+begin_src sh [ -n "$EAT_{SHELLINTEGRATIONDIR}" ] && \ source "$EAT_{SHELLINTEGRATIONDIR}/bash" #+end_src sh

For Zsh, put the following in your .zshrc:

#+begin_src sh [ -n "$EAT_{SHELLINTEGRATIONDIR}" ] && \ source "$EAT_{SHELLINTEGRATIONDIR}/zsh" #+end_src sh

There's a Info manual available with much more information, which can be accessed with C-h i m Eat, also available here on the internet.

Eat requires at least Emacs 26.1 or above.

This wouldn't have been possible if the following awesome softwares didn't exist:

• GNU Operating System
• St
• Kitty
• XTerm
• Linux-libre
• Term
• Coterm
• Shell
• Vterm
• Eshell
• Numerous terminal programs
• And obviously, GNU Emacs