dotfiles/modules/eshell.org

#+TITLE: EShell
#+AUTHOR: Christopher James Hayward
#+EMAIL: chris@chrishayward.xyz

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EShell is a fully POSIX compliant shell written entirely in Emacs Lisp, included with Emacs.

* Config

While not a traditional terminal emulator, it provides a native REPL for Emacs Lisp code, with everything in your configuration available in the environment. Make some slight configurations:

+ Don't highlight the prompt
+ Favour use of system utilities

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq eshell-highlight-prompt nil
      eshell-prefer-lisp-functions nil)
#+end_src

* Extras

Implement the lambda prompt for aesthetic purposes with the ~eshell-prompt-extras~ package. Here's an example of what that looks like:

#+begin_example
~/.emacs.d/modules:main*? λ 
#+end_example

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package eshell-prompt-extras
  :custom (eshell-prompt-function 'epe-theme-lambda))
#+end_src

* Shortcuts

Open ~eshell~ in the current buffer with =SPC e=:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(dotfiles/leader
  "e" '(eshell :which-key "EShell"))
#+end_src