From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Terrence Brannon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: leaving comint.el for a better emacs shell Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 08:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9f0d1093-af78-43db-8ceb-440df924ab24@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: <87liyap6v9.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306269099 21236 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:31:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:31:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyGK-000468-T4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:31:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyGK-0001mn-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:31:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.207.197.242 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1305560186 6911 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2011 15:36:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.207.197.242; posting-account=CLTRiQoAAAATysyZI2zRzNDqH657kxk9 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186859 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81179 Archived-At: On May 13, 6:34=A0pm, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2011 14:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Terrence Brannon wrote: > > TB> I would like to have a shell which > TB> =A0 1. allows me to have multiple shells, with descriptive names, bas= ed > TB> on the current working directory of the buffer I am in > TB> =A0 2. opens shells on remote machines, should the current working > TB> directory be on a machine I have accessed via tramp > > eshell does 1 and 2. > > TB> Eshell sounds neat, but I dont think it sources .bashrc files, does > TB> it? > > Why do you need to source bashrc files? =A0Do you need aliases, functions= , prompts? well I need those things you mention and I'm sure that eshell does them. But I have all that written in bash and sometimes I use xterm and bash is common ground for my xterm work and emacs work. Eshell could never fill that role > > Ted I just realized I did not post the Perl script which fails in comint.el but works in M-x term and M-x eshell Here it is - https://gist.github.com/973675