So the only thing that keeps me from using eshell regularly as my shell is that I sometimes hit a CLI tool that wants to use all the TTY features, and that of course gets mangled by eshell.
Has anyone found a good solution for this? I can imagine, hypothetically, detecting one is about to launch one of those CLI tools and launching them in multi-term, but I’m not sure how I’d set that up (in particular, a pattern of running can-eshell | must-tty | can-eshell commands smells like it’d require some weird plumbing).
@kickingvegas Thank you! This is extremely helpful.
@mtomczak I've been trying "eat" recently (https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/eat.html). This has an eat-eshell-mode which enhances eshell to support programs such as these. That might help!
@mtomczak see the variable `eshell-visual-commands`. It's a list of strings representing commands that should be run in a terminal emulator. Should help a bit.