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   1 multishell.el
   2 =============
   3
   4 Facilitate use of multiple local and remote Emacs shell buffers.
   5
   6 Multishell is available via Emacs package manager, [in ELPA](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/multishell.html). Install "multishell" from the `M-x package-list-packages` listing.
   7
   8 I use the emacs shell a *lot*, including separate shells for separate
   9 project, and more shells for access to remote systems (which I do a lot, as
  10 a systems administrator). On top of emacs' powerful shell and tramp
  11 facilities, use a `multishell` (customization-activated) key binding to:
  12
  13 * Get to the input point from wherever you are in a shell buffer,
  14   ... or to any of your shell buffers, from anywhere inside emacs.
  15
  16 * Use universal arguments to launch and choose among alternate shell buffers,
  17   ... and change which is the current default.
  18
  19 * Easily restart disconnected shells, or shells from prior sessions
  20   ... the latter from Emacs builtin savehist minibuf history persistence
  21
  22 * Append a path to a new shell name to launch a shell in that directory,
  23   ... and use a path with Emacs tramp syntax to launch a remote shell -
  24   for example:
  25
  26   * `#root/sudo:root@localhost:/etc` for a buffer named "#root" with a
  27     root shell starting in /etc.
  28
  29   * `/ssh:example.net:/` for a shell buffer in / on example.net.
  30     The buffer will be named "*example.net*".
  31
  32   * `#ex/ssh:example.net|sudo:root@example.net:/etc` for a root shell
  33     starting in /etc on example.net named "*#ex*".
  34
  35   * `interior/ssh:gateway.corp.com|ssh:interior.corp.com:` to go via
  36     gateway.corp.com to your homedir on interior.corp.com.  The buffer
  37     will be named "*interior*". You could append a sudo hop, and so on.
  38
  39 * Thanks to tramp, file visits from the shell will seamlessly be on the
  40   host where the shell is running, in the auspices of the target account.
  41
  42 See the `multishell-pop-to-shell` docstring (in
  43 [multishell.el](multishell.el)) for details, and
  44 [getting-to-a-shell.md](getting-to-a-shell.md) for the nitty-gritty
  45 decision tree that determines where the keybinding according to the various
  46 conditions.
  47
  48 Customize-group `multishell' to select and activate a keybinding and set
  49 various behaviors. Customize-group `savehist' to preserve buffer
  50 names/paths across emacs restarts.
  51
  52 Please use
  53 [the multishell repository](https://github.com/kenmanheimer/EmacsMultishell)
  54 issue tracker to report problems, suggestions, etc.
  55
  56 See the [multishell.el](multishell.el) file commentary for a change log and
  57 Todo list.