Launch gnome-terminal from emacs
Add this to your .emacs to allow shift-f1 to launch a gnome terminal (defun launch-gnome-term () “launch gnome-terminal” (interactive) (shell-command “gnome-terminal”)) (global-set-key [(shift f1)] `launch-gnome-term) The good thing about this is it launches the terminal in the directory of the file you are working on… ready for diff’ing, scp’ing etc. Obviously this can be customized …