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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 15:47:13 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaaeetw42.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ir9hpu$gp0$1@reader1.panix.com

> I tried eshell once, never quite got what the advantages were.

It works about as well under any OS and is tightly integrated with
Emacs.  It also has significant disadvantages, admittedly.

> Adventure shell: never heard of it -- from a bit of
> googling it seems that you do shell commands as part
> of playing a GAME?  When I'm trying to get something *done*?

Thing of it as something along the lines of M-x doctor: once you've
tried it, you'll wonder how anyone ever managed to get any work done
without it.

> So what's wrong with tcsh, with tons of aliases?

Brain-dead quoting rules, and inconvenient syntax for scripts.
So I switched to zsh which offered pretty much all the features I was
using of tcsh.  I guess nowadays even bash offers all those features.


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-22 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27  6:47 Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration? haziz
2011-04-27  9:11 ` Jorgen Grahn
2011-04-27 16:04   ` despen
2011-04-28  6:26     ` Jorgen Grahn
2011-05-09  1:38     ` David Combs
2011-05-09  1:42       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-09 16:30         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 16:52           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-21 23:27           ` David Combs
2011-05-22  0:17             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-22 18:47             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-22 19:35               ` Jorgen Grahn
2011-05-23 14:50             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09  3:33       ` despen
2011-05-09 12:53         ` Jorgen Grahn
2011-05-26 14:56     ` Richard Riley
2011-05-26 14:54   ` Richard Riley
2011-04-27 18:26 ` Colin S. Miller
2011-04-30  0:07   ` haziz
2011-04-29 12:21 ` hjuvi
2011-05-02  3:24   ` rusi
2011-05-02  8:44     ` hjuvi
2011-05-02  9:29       ` Re : " hjuvi
2011-05-26 13:50 ` Richard Riley

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