Shell-maker, a maker of Emacs shells

In plain words

Shell-maker is an Emacs tool that creates custom shells within the Emacs text editor. Launched in April 2023, it enables users to configure and manage shell environments directly in Emacs, streamlining workflow for developers and power users who spend significant time in the editor. The tool integrates shell functionality with Emacs capabilities, allowing for a unified development environment without switching between multiple applications.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment to bring ChatGPT to Emacs as a shell . I was fairly new to both ChatGPT and building anything on top of comint . It was a fun exercise, which also generated some interest. As mentioned in the previous post, I took inspiration in other Emacs packages (primarily ielm ) to figure out what I needed from comint. Soon, I got ChatGPT working. As I was looking at OpenAI API docs, I learned about DALL-E: "an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language." Like ChatGPT, they also offered an API to DALL-E, so I figured I may as well try to write a shell for that too… and I did. There was quite a bit of code…from xenodium.com

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