vterm
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6recommend
3warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“(or vterm, or eat)”
“Strengths: magit, wgrep, vterm”
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“My main use case is emacsclient and vterm as a terminal multiplexer, in place of something like tmux or screen”
“I use vterm in Emacs for visual commands like nvim and htop.”
Caveats and dissent
“had way too many issues where emacs/vterm was the culprit”
“I was struggling with vterm”
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“I recently switched from vterm to ghostel”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode 2 mentions
- Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty 2 mentions
- What's new in Emacs 31.1 1 mention
- Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving 1 mention
- I have officially retired from Emacs 1 mention
- Make Tmux Pretty and Usable 1 mention
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All comments 12
“(or vterm, or eat)”
“I run vterm inside emacs, and claude code inside vterm.”
“had way too many issues where emacs/vterm was the culprit”
“I was struggling with vterm”
“I recently switched from vterm to ghostel”
“some things that make Ghostel better than vterm”
“Strengths: magit, wgrep, vterm”
“you can use something like vterm”
“My main use case is emacsclient and vterm as a terminal multiplexer, in place of something like tmux or screen”
“I use vterm in Emacs for visual commands like nvim and htop.”
“I use vterm which I believe prides itself for being the fastest terminal emulator inside Emacs”
“project.el, eglot, LSP things, helm, corfu, vterm, flycheck”