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Using Emacs as a TUI

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by iLemming

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In the related news, master branch of Emacs now supports child frames in the terminal https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/m2h694lp7s.fsf@gmail.com, hopefully available in the next stable release.
That means we can have floating autocomplete menus, notification boxes, dialog-like interactions - all interesting possibilities that we've had in the GUI for a long time.

by xlii

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I didn't know about kkp package. Need to try it out - especially on MacOS there are still performance issues (that I work on) so having workable terminal with all the keybinds available would be helpful.
By the way, recently Kitty introduced variable sized text, which probably could be integrated in Emacs, too, to have my favorite feature - font resize per frame :)

by alt187

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You might not want to have vendor lock-in on a terminal with opt-out telemetry.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3802

by shaleMode

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Split the screen: c-x 2, 2nd window in shell-mode with M-x shell, everything is fine. Am i missing something here?

by mjh2539

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I usually use emacs-nox when running inside of a terminal. Not sure on how it's related exactly to emacs -nw. I do know it's a separate binary, so infer from that what you will.

by wredcoll

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It genuinely never ocurred to me that you use emacs somewhere outside the terminal.