Re: Optimal emacs shell for coding

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Xah wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 8:24 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>> <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Xahwrote:
>>>> In general, the shell-command and shell is most useful. Run eshell if
>>>> you are in Windows and don't have cygwin installed and want to run
>>>> unix commands such as ls, cd, mkdir, etc. If you need to run telnet,
>>> Have you tried for example "grep" from within eshell? Quite nice.
>>
>> Let me see...
>>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Welcome to the Emacs shell
>>
>>
>> ~/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 $
>>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> LOL.
>>
>> Get back to work Len.
>
>
> Why do you think predictable behaviour is nice? ;-)
>
> Ok, you discovered the bug so it is your turn to file a bug report again ...

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.

Tim


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