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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eshell documentation
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:53:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbvlc2o8.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xbaiy6oyayif.fsf@cam.ac.uk

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2009-09-02 01:24 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently discovered eshell and wanted to read up on it as I use BASH
>> instead of the default Bourne shell. But when I looked at the info
>> pages, almost all of the nodes were completely empty! There was some
>> bare minimum material to go through but nothing that would help me set
>> what I was looking for.
>>
>> Where can I find more extensive documentation or better yet, how can I
>> change my shell from /bin/sh to /bin/bash ?
>>
>> PS: This webpage confirms my observation about the docs.
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html
>
> Try emacswiki.
You will find on emacswiki a manual:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellManual

You can use it as the eshell manual for emacs to replace the one that
come with emacs that is empty...or nearly.
I have proposed to emacs-devel to use this manual but they never did it.

-- 
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France





  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02  0:24 Eshell documentation Suvayu Ali
2009-09-02  2:09 ` Leo
2009-09-02  5:53   ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2009-09-02  8:16     ` Suvayu Ali

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