From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell Date: 30 Mar 2008 01:25:32 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206845393 13627 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 02:49:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:49:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 04:50:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jfncl-000643-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfnc9-0006v7-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:49:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net mVLVDl3K26wanC4wPv6fEQmGgxIX3Nc0zKI9pk+EwEus/gyHdl Cancel-Lock: sha1:SIEcFb28pBLMHbhlWIoOMamSgCQ= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157444 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:48:51 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52814 Archived-At: Lorenzo Isella wrote: > Dear All, > I am slowly discovering new features in emacs and I found out it has its > own shell (eshell). > Now, I wonder if it is a good investment to learn how to use it. I found > tons of tutorials online (BTW: any recommendation to start me out?), but > I am missing the big picture. > 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? > Many thanks I'm generally quite happy using the "native" shell (whether bash or tcsh) under Unix-type systems, but I find eshell far superior to the native command shell under Windows. If you work (as I do) in various environments, I can see where one might prefer to use the same shell everywhere, and eshell provides that ability. (The ability to use the same [powerful] editor under many different OS's is a prime reason why I'm an Emacs user in the first place.) -- Will