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Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term"
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Rob Thorpe |
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Re: Why have "shell" when there's "term" |
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7 Jul 2003 04:22:40 -0700 |
dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote in message
news:<be8l9c$jgm$1@reader1.panix.com>...
> In article <m3u1az3w0z.fsf@localhost.localdomain>,
> Subhankar Chatterjee <subhankar@dzineassociates.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >Try the Emacs shell or [M-x eshell]
>
> Could someone who uses eshell, or who has tried it,
> please tell us the advantages and disadvantages are
> of eshell?
Somethings others haven't mentioned:
`man' invokes emacs man and `grep' emacs grep, which is useful.
Eshell takes quite a noticable time to load even on quite a fast machine.