Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 at 3:12 AM
> From: "Vladimir Sedach" <vas@oneofus.la>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'
>
> 
> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
> > I would like to use Eshell to call an alias 'cl' that does
> > a 'cd' to a directory followed by an 'ls'.  But I do not know
> > how to achieve it.
> 
> I am not sure whether you are already aware of this: you can achieve
> the same effect by setting the eshell-list-files-after-cd variable.

No, I did not know that.
 
> Also useful is the variable documentation:
> 
> "If non-nil, call "ls" with any remaining args after doing a cd.
> This is provided for convenience, since the same effect is easily
> achieved by adding a function to ‘eshell-directory-change-hook’ that
> calls "ls" and references ‘eshell-last-arguments’."
> 
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> Vladimir Sedach
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