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* Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell
@ 2008-03-30  9:40 Pavol Murin
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From: Pavol Murin @ 2008-03-30  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs, lorenzo.isella

>  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
>
>  Lorenzo

Now I don't know if you are already running a shell in emacs - I think
that is definitely a great idea. If for nothing else: you can search
the output of commands and save the output of a command after it was
already run. Having full emacs available in the shell is great. There
are some problems - e.g. ncurses, but that doesn't bother me
personally. YMMV.

However, this does not answer your question whether it is worth to use
eshell. I don't know that, I just use bash. If you already knew about
the benefits of running a shell, sorry for wasting your time.

muro




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* Reasons for Switching to Eshell
@ 2008-03-29 13:45 Lorenzo Isella
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Isella @ 2008-03-29 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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

Lorenzo




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