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What is the point of using Vterm or Eat?
(alien.top)
A community for the timeless and infinitely powerful editor. Want to see what Emacs is capable of?!
Can you call external programs like GCC with eshell?
Why are people downvoting this question? OP seems legitimately confused.
Yes? It's a shell
I have this funny anecdote.
A remote system I was working on has a malfunction: taskbar dead; windows blocked; super-key did’t activate anything. I had just a Emacs window open.
I ran eshell and then “shutdown -r now” and the system restarted.
Great moment with surprised colleagues :-) it was 2020