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Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell
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Mathias Dahl |
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Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell |
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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:15:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com> writes:
> I suppose that eshell must be perfectly integrated with emacs, but
> other than that are there reasons to give it preference with respect
> to .e.g BASH?
I love eshell and the cool extra features it adds but there are some
problems with it:
- Doing su or sudo su does not work like you expect. This works under
the normal shell (M-x shell). I am su:ing quite much (please, no
lectures about why this might be a bad idea) so for me this is
annoying.
- Programs with "GUIs" (ncurses or whatever) that uses the terminal in
clever ways does not work very well. This applies to the normal shell
as well. For pure command line programs both work great.
A good thing, as someone else mentioned, is that if you use eshell it
will work the same for all platforms where you use Emacs.
If the above does not scare you, you should definitely look into
Eshell. EmacsWiki has quite a lot of goodies for it.
/Mathias
- Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Lorenzo Isella, 2008/03/29
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Will Parsons, 2008/03/29
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Tim X, 2008/03/30
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Pavol Murin, 2008/03/30
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell,
Mathias Dahl <=
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Christian Herenz, 2008/03/31
- Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, Michael Albinus, 2008/03/31
Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell, poppyer, 2008/03/30