Well one major thing is that tramp is inside emacs so you can configure it with elisp, which is a major plus in my mind. The main problem with tramp is that Emacs is single threaded (and elisp threads run one at a time), so networking operations can be iffy. On most normal connections it works fine in my experience. Another reason to use sshfs is if you're switching between Emacs and a separate terminal, you don't need another connection. That goes away with vterm since now you don't need a separate terminal (it fixes a lot of the traditional problems with ansi-term, shell-mode, and eshell. Although there's a good argument to make for using eshell as your main shell).

By vterm do you mean this?

https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/blob/master/README....

It seems extremely experimental, and I've been trying recently to make my emacs more stable so I can choose when I want to spend time editing my config.

It seems stable at this point. I've dropped using anything other than eshell & vterm in Emacs.

Can confirm—vterm is very stable now. I've ditched separate terminal applications and exclusively use Emacs+vterm.

Thanks

Is there a way to get fuzzy searchable history ala bash Ctrl+r?

Also I've noticed that if I use any emacs movement command (say jump to start of line) vterm looses internal sync and my edits edit the wrong text. Is that an issue specific to my config, or do you have it as well?

you should be able to leverage normal bash/zsh/&c. functionality.

the emacs movement issue I don't have, so perhaps that's a configuration issue.

(one perhaps useful tip: `vterm-copy-mode`, by default bound to C-c C-t, let's you navigate the buffer with normal emacs movement in order to copy)