From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FCC Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Thinking of Converting to EShell - Opinions? Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:36:39 +0200 Organization: UPC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1092764940.460278@sj-nntpcache-5> <868yccx3ez.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092912060 7769 80.91.224.253 (19 Aug 2004 10:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 19 12:40:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxkLk-0006pZ-00 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:40:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxkPz-0006hH-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:45:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.cesca.es!news.upc.es!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adca05.upc.es Original-X-Trace: defalla.upc.es 1092911809 1080 147.83.51.18 (19 Aug 2004 10:36:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmngr@upc.es Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 2004 10:36:49 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-es, tr In-Reply-To: <868yccx3ez.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124822 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20170 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20170 Kai Grossjohann articulated on 8/18/2004 10:21 AM: > "Tennis Smith" writes: > > >>I've used tcsh for years. But it looks like the eshell is finally mature >>enough to be a good alternative. Is it? Can you use it on a daily basis >>without having to switch back? Is the conversion worth the effort? > > > AFAICT, eshell has always been "mature" in the sense that the software > was working well. There is, however, a documentation problem. The > Emacs Wiki (www.emacswiki.org) has a great section on Eshell. Perhaps > that is good enough for you? I think, for Eshell documentation, may be the best source is at the author's web site (the link for English version of Eshell documentation at www.emacswiki.org is broken, but the Japanese version is still working): http://www.newartisans.com/johnw/EshellFeatures.html -- FCC. === If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. -Aldous Huxley.