From: Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@amuri.net>
To: Geoffrey Teale <tealeg@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Orphaning Eshell
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:38:18 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <534263FA.5060501@amuri.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx3QY9jOya3Z5hFaVkcV9S8JAEf7zhhxrf8tjHnbkGxjMYgag@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/04/14 03:59, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> I use eshell every day. I'd be sad to see it go unmaintained. As yet
> I don't think I've ever had to look at the code, so I've no idea what
> the maintenance task would be like. Is it a lot of work?
The only hairy bits for me were completion, control structures (loops
and if-then-else), and built-in variables. Eshell uses pcomplete for
completion, which I would still like to puzzle out and document some
day, and is a bit cryptic. Only for is documented, but Eshell appears
to implement while and if. As for built-in variables, their
implementation wasn't obvious, and I never got far with tracking them down.
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-07 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-04 7:52 Orphaning Eshell Aidan Gauland
2014-04-04 14:59 ` Geoffrey Teale
2014-04-06 7:07 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-04-07 8:38 ` Aidan Gauland [this message]
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