From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean McAfee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's the differences b/t M-x eshell and M-x shell. Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:27:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <54065fc0-bb58-46d7-bcb8-08fbc5e71286@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <87mxqnr0oj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291887996 17783 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 09:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:46:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 10:46:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQd54-00040U-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQd52-0003oj-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:46:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:27:18 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q29DgKuJWV413sBekyHwfjF92BE= Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Trace: sv3-unFKvHuiBkFCofTovS+OV9GO9eC/R+lFzg65oTGcpc3QjyKlsrlTeGFbKqlKj4axxOO1mpmuguM5PyN!ZhZOuh2TI43MIHQNMSkXFlmqRqWp64vLE1goOQ/0D8T2IjUE3BnC7OOOyQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1444 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181700 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76931 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > eshell is implemented in emacs lisp, and gives you direct access to > emacs lisp, which is a much better language than any shell language (but > scsh of course). It's a pity, then, that eshell's documentation is worse than any other shell's, by several orders of magnitude.