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		wainstead on May 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Emacs Popular Again There are a few shell modes in Emacs. I think ansi-term might do what you want for a full screen interactive terminal application.

alpaca128 on May 8, 2020 [–]

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.

catalogia on May 8, 2020 | [–]

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.

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