Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:

> Disabling eshell/date makes Eshell less portable on one system at least,
> that is Windows.  But what does "portability" mean in this context?  Are
> the coreutils meant to be part of Eshell?  Why?  Supporting `date' but not
> its arguments does not make up for actual portability I believe.  Case
> in point: I got fooled.
>
> Let's take the case of BSD vs. GNU: bash or zsh do not wrap around `ls',
> so the behaviour will not be the same on BSD and GNU.  Why should Eshell
> be any different?

Eshell isn't exactly the same as bash or zsh.  You can use M-x shell if
you prefer them.

We could fallback to the external command if given arguments.  This is
being done currently for other commands like eshell/rm (for unrecognized
arguments, that is).