Why I love emacs
So, this morning I was jumping back into a project and was working with a git repo.
I typed: git commit --amend and all of the sudden, I received
emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
`setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well.
error: There was a problem with the editor 'emacs'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
I laughed as I was in emacs… and the response was telling me I couldn’t run emacs. The irony!!!
Emacs’ ansi-term is just too good for it’s own sake. :-)