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M-x shell

is so useful for searching for text strings in outputs. (when grep alone will not do) like all things emacs/ terminal its a little awkward when trying to use the control keys (up arrow, ^r) and they get captured by emacs and not the shell.



Amen, and throw in hi-lock and you can create arbitrary keyword highlighting (like any time the word "error" appears it's colored red). Great for tailing log files.


M-p is the replacement for up arrow


Which I bind to f6 for convenience.


I've never understood claims that function keys are convenient, but I guess it's because I don't use them that much.


I agree that they are less convenient than the control key sequence, but better than the up arrow trick.

And it is a little worse on the kinesis, as the function keys are not the same quality as the rest of the keys.


have you tried multi-term (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultiTerm) it is much nicer than the canonical shell that is available...




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