From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Thinking of Converting to EShell - Opinions?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:17:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412275EB.1090308@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1092764940.460278@sj-nntpcache-5
Tennis Smith wrote:
> I've used tcsh for years. But it looks like the eshell is finally mature
> enough to be a good alternative. Is it? Can you use it on a daily basis
> without having to switch back? Is the conversion worth the effort?
I don't know about eshell. But if you're willing to use a shell under
Emacs, it would be worth the effort to switch to bash[1], ksh[2], or
zsh[3]. That way, you're using a shell whose interactive features are
at least as good as csh/tcsh, with the same syntax and capabilities as
a system scripting language[4][5] -- plus you have all of Emacs'
shell/comint features.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
[2] http://www.kornshell.com/
[3] http://zsh.sunsite.dk/
[4] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
[5] http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-17 17:52 Thinking of Converting to EShell - Opinions? Tennis Smith
2004-08-17 21:17 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-08-17 23:52 ` Christopher Browne
2004-08-18 8:21 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-08-19 10:36 ` FCC
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