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"In my experience Emacs simply isn't a very good terminal to run a shell in anyway"
Do you know about
vtermandeat? If yes, what is the problem with these?not OP, but i tried eat for about 2 seconds and immediately gave up. The backspace key produces spaces.
Then I tried vterm. The backspace key works! OK the basics are out of the way. Let's try my basic git workflow, using ncurses program tig to view a log. Nope, lots of random jumpy scrolling.
Maybe these issues have work arounds. But iterm2 + tmux + Emacs already work flawlessly. Years of use with 0 issues.
As the others have mentioned, check that
TERMis correctly set (it should be something likeeat-truecolor), but also make sure that the terminfo file is there. If you're on Mac or, I assume, any flavor of BSD, the version that comes with eat won't work out of the box because Linux and Darwin/BSD compile these files differently.Just run
M-x eat-compile-terminfoand that should get you the proper files for your system. Restart eat and it should work.