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

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5:49 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: EShell Alias for a 'cd' followed by 'ls'
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-11-19 05:30]:
> > 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.
>
> This is by using function instead of alias.
>
> (defun cll (&optional dir)
>   (cd dir)
>  (eshell/ls))

I have been thinking when one would need to use

(require 'eshell)

What is its use case?

> I have tried with cl, but there is collision with system command cl.
>