From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration? Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 15:47:13 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <430fcda1-6ad7-4078-baf8-58608a30c302@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <8762pksl93.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87aaevet0y.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306269309 22770 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:35:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:35:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyJk-0006XH-GA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyJj-0000Ml-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:35:04 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="i0TjIjvoAYf48AP5I0mRrg"; logging-data="3212"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/49FrMr34v674m1+ImHUI" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Q2tAYxpHIfy7qho3FYmqmabteI= sha1:Gt5FdIjxnbkj+OEkwqEX143xXOg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186883 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81202 Archived-At: > I tried eshell once, never quite got what the advantages were. It works about as well under any OS and is tightly integrated with Emacs. It also has significant disadvantages, admittedly. > Adventure shell: never heard of it -- from a bit of > googling it seems that you do shell commands as part > of playing a GAME? When I'm trying to get something *done*? Thing of it as something along the lines of M-x doctor: once you've tried it, you'll wonder how anyone ever managed to get any work done without it. > So what's wrong with tcsh, with tons of aliases? Brain-dead quoting rules, and inconvenient syntax for scripts. So I switched to zsh which offered pretty much all the features I was using of tcsh. I guess nowadays even bash offers all those features. Stefan