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: leaving comint.el for a better emacs shell Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306269063 21028 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:31:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:31:03 +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 22:30:59 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 1QOyFn-0003f4-8y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyFm-0000jl-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:30:58 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u15g2000vby.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.32.159.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1305323201 23253 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2011 21:46:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u15g2000vby.googlegroups.com; posting-host=184.32.159.87; 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:186852 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:81178 Archived-At: I would like to have a shell which 1. allows me to have multiple shells, with descriptive names, based on the current working directory of the buffer I am in 2. opens shells on remote machines, should the current working directory be on a machine I have accessed via tramp 3. reads .bashrc files I need to rule out comint.el and find something else, because comint.el does not work with a simple Perl script: yet M-x term and M-x eshell both do Eshell sounds neat, but I dont think it sources .bashrc files, does it? And term is OK, but how about getting multiple terms with descriptive names?