Re: Optimal emacs shell for coding

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Tim X wrote:
>>> ~/web/emacs $ which grep
>>> eshell/grep is a compiled Lisp function in `em-unix.el'
>>> ~/web/emacs $ ls | grep lin
>>> elisp_link_report.el                        modernization.html
>>> elisp_link_report.el~
>>> modernization_html_mail.html
>>> elisp_link_report.html
>>> modernization_meta_key.html
>>> elisp_make_link.html                        ms_keyboard
>>> emacs_installing_packages.html              wrap-url2.html.gz
>>> emacs_manual_problem.html                   xah_emacs_linkify.el
>>> emacs_n_unicode.html                        xah_emacs_linkify.el~
>>> ~/web/emacs $
 >
> don't think its a bug. This is eshell not handling redirection correclty
> and is something that cannot be easily fixed. Bottom line, don't use
> redirection in eshell.


If you look carefully at the output you can see that what is not handled 
is the parameters to "ls". If you try "ls -1" it will work.

So, yes it is a problem with redirection, but only with the (implicit) 
arguments to the first program.