Besides, it turns out, setting up emacslient for quick editing, or even for bringing up Dired to use as a directory lookup and switcher is also very nice.
- Image previews (for file management with dired/dirvish)
- PDF viewing
- In-buffer images (e.g. profile pictures in git log with Magit)
- Browsing simple HTML pages (e.g. API docs)
There's probably more I've yet to discover.
Using it on the terminal only over telnet when a remote X session wasn't possible.
Yes, that is a concern, but this is a post about Emacs as a TUI, and sidetracking it to discuss a hot topic about another piece of software is concern trolling.
By the way, recently Kitty introduced variable sized text, which probably could be integrated in Emacs, too, to have my favorite feature - font resize per frame :)
It also works fine in many other terminals like iTerm2 and Ghostty. Last I tried, they don’t report Super though.
There are some minor differences. For example, I believe -nw can still use the X support to access the GUI clipboard, while -nox requires enabling e.g. OSC-52 support to do the same.
That means we can have floating autocomplete menus, notification boxes, dialog-like interactions - all interesting possibilities that we've had in the GUI for a long time.
