From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 42612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42612: 28.0.50; Eshell: support setting working buffer like IELM
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:10:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ygya0j.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9i5djab.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello Eli,
On Thu 30 Jul 2020 at 08:06PM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Eshell is a shell. What is the semantics of running a shell in a
> buffer? The only semantics I can think of is to run the shell in the
> default-directory of that buffer.
(info "(eshell) Top") says
[Eshell] is intended to be an alternative to the IELM REPL for Emacs
and with an interface similar to command shells ...
The functionality of setting a working buffer would be for when Eshell
is being used as an alternative to IELM, and it would have the same
semantics as the equivalent functionality in IELM.
I agree that when Eshell is being used as a command shell the only
significant thing would be default-directory.
--
Sean Whitton
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-02 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-30 5:29 bug#42612: 28.0.50; Eshell: support setting working buffer like IELM Sean Whitton
2020-07-30 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-30 16:49 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-30 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-02 22:10 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
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