EAT
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
0warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“(or vterm, or eat)”
“that's got me staying on EAT right now”
Show 3 more
“been the best one”
“which provides a very fast terminal emulator entirely in emacs lisp”
“I haven't had any terminal emulation problems since switching to it.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt 2 mentions
- Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014) 2 mentions
- Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode 1 mention
- Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty 1 mention
- Emacs is my new window manager (2015) 1 mention
- How I am deeply integrating Emacs 1 mention
Also written as eat, Eat. Data: eat.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“(or vterm, or eat)”
“that's got me staying on EAT right now”
“been the best one”
“which provides a very fast terminal emulator entirely in emacs lisp”
“It sounds from your description like vterm is faster than eat.”
“I haven't had any terminal emulation problems since switching to it.”
“in my case I've been using eat as single terminal instance for a while now”
“If you want to try eshell, try combining it with EAT (eat-eshell-mode).”