From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what's much better in eshell than eg tcsh? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:13:03 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207316479 26762 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 13:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 15:41:51 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 1JhmAM-00078P-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:41:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhm9j-0001Cc-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1207314784 16976 166.84.1.5 (4 Apr 2008 13:13:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:13:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E/3rkqiTbBuWoHuLuffPQQczsBY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157673 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:53043 Archived-At: The advantage of eshell is in it's automatic inclusion with emacs, and its portability across platforms. You also have the advantage of access to emacs functions and lisp programming. I wouldn't go so far as to say one is better than the other. Just use the one that's appropriate for a given situation. - Chris dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > I tried it once, a few years ago, and found it difficult, > maybe even unpleasant, to use. Also never learned how > to do things I was used to do with tcsh. > > And why better (for programming) than bourne? > > What I do depends on what you guys say. > > > THANKS > > David > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================