Why does `top` return immediately in eshell?

Question

Can eshell run top command interactively as other shell does ?

Regards!

Answer 1

You may be out of luck. See here.

Despite all the advantages offered by Eshell, there are some points I want to make that seem to confuse some people:

1. Eshell does not support interactive (or “visual” in Eshell parlance) programs, like top, directly; you must tell Eshell to launch them in a separate ansi-term instance instead.