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		hogu on Sept 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners The best feature of emacs is running shells in buffers. For interactive work, this is supremely useful because you can easily search your history, grab previous lines/chunks of code, and edit them into future commands. I do this all the time for data exploration with python.

Tezro on Sept 4, 2013 [–]

I like the M-x eshell function a lot, too. It supplies identical shell experience across every system which is capable to run emacs.

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