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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 06:49:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-1adbf1fc-7a88-468b-b295-bc2e1cd31baf-1605764981854@3c-app-mailcom-bs05> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X7X5S7t5Cb4IPW1r@protected.rcdrun.com>

> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5:49 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-11-19 05:30]:
> > I would like to use Eshell to call an alias 'cl' that does
> > a 'cd' to a directory followed by an 'ls'.  But I do not know
> > how to achieve it.
>
> This is by using function instead of alias.
>
> (defun cll (&optional dir)
>   (cd dir)
>  (eshell/ls))

I have been thinking when one would need to use

(require 'eshell)

What is its use case?

> I have tried with cl, but there is collision with system command cl.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19  2:28 EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls' Christopher Dimech
2020-11-19  3:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-19  4:10   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-19  4:43     ` Dan Hitt
2020-11-19  4:56       ` Dan Hitt
2020-11-19  5:18       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-19  6:02         ` Dan Hitt
2020-11-19  6:39           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-19  7:10             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-19  8:52               ` Dan Hitt
2020-11-19 12:00                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-19 21:19               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-19  4:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-19  5:49   ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-20  2:12 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-11-20  2:21   ` Christopher Dimech

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