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Thanks, I might give that a shot. I just installed vim-orgmode to see if I could get a little emacs goodness in vimland. I usually use a custom markup language and vim syntax definitions to keep track of my notes, so this may get me to convert my notes to org mode.

The thing I'm most excited about is shell-mode. For years I've wanted to be able to drop to a shell in vim and visually cut/paste the window. From what I hear, emacs can handle that.



> For years I've wanted to be able to drop to a shell in vim and visually cut/paste the window.

NeoVim is 100% compatible and has a pretty decent terminal buffer with full (read-only) Vim controls. Nowadays I prefer running it in a terminal multiplexer though.

Emacs' terminal mode doesn't have ncurses support which leads to pretty much all interactive terminal applications to break.


There are a few shell modes in Emacs. I think ansi-term might do what you want for a full screen interactive terminal application.


I tried all 3 terminals I could find and none works. Apparently they all use the same ancient base that was developed before interactive terminal UIs were a thing.


ncurses programs absolutely do work with ansi-term, which is a terminal emulator. They don't work with eshell, which is not a terminal emulator.


You might want to update your vim installation and check out `:help terminal`.

One thing I learned last year is to keep all my notes in markdown. I don't like it, I prefer my own markup, but many apps support it, which increases its usefulness a lot.




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