For some tasks like using ruby's pry and tmux both eshell and shell do not behave well. I tried to use term, but my innability to override the keybindings in term makes its use annoying.
How can I set, say, M-o as other-window and M-k as kill-buffer when using term ?
maybe using ansi-term instead would be slightly less annoying, since it exposes a C-x prefix, allowing you to use, say, C-x o or C-x k without any special trick.
If that's not sufficient, you can use the following approach:
(defun expose-global-binding-in-term (binding)
(define-key term-raw-map binding
(lookup-key (current-global-map) binding)))
(expose-global-binding-in-term (kbd "M-o"))
(expose-global-binding-in-term (kbd "M-k"))
...
In term-mode, any regular C-x whatever keybinding becomes C-c whatever instead.
Courtesy of Josh Matthews
Now to define keybindings that will be active only in term mode, try this:
(add-hook 'term-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-J") 'other-window)
(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-k") 'kill-buffer)))
term-mode-hook is highly likely not useful: you will end up reinstalling those keys every time the mode is activated, instead of doing it only once.
term-raw-map instead of term-mode-map as it's the default keymap (alternatively, a user may put keybindings to both maps). It isn't obvious and for some reason I didn't find this answer till I wrote a question and almost sent it. Anyway, I sent fixes to the term-mode documentation, so hopefully it would be less of a problem for future users.
termbut only in line modeC-c C-j. I just toggle char modeC-c C-kwhenever necessary.C-c C-jandC-c C-k! Thanks!