Comments on: Mastering Eshell

By: PComplete: Context-Sensitive Completion in Emacs | Mastering Emacs

PComplete: Context-Sensitive Completion in Emacs | Mastering Emacs — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:42 +0000

[...] I briefly mentioned that pcomplete, the programmable completion library featured prominently in Eshell, now supports M-x shell out of the box. That’s great news for shell mode fans as the [...]

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:29:41 +0000

You should check out my article on sorting in Emacs; you might be surprised to learn that Emacs has excellent and regexp-aware sorting mechanisms.

As for IO through buffers: that’s pretty much how Emacs does the bulk of its communications. As it goes, Emacs has thousands of commands for operating on buffers but few that operate on internal data structures, like strings, as it would unnecessarily duplicate the functionality already available to a near-infinite-length buffer.

By: k

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:30:49 +0000

all IO going through buffers: is it really necessary? I tend to do a lot of sort+awk in my daily interactive shell usage – that’s pretty much all I do outside of emacs I like the concept of eshell, but because of the slowness I never manage to use it for real work.

By: LongList

LongList — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:11:29 +0000

Does eshell have anything similar to dired’s

(setq ls-lisp-verbosity nil)

to remove the uid and gid columns from
“ls -l” long-form directory listings?

(Emacs 24.0.92.1)

And yes, thanks for a terrific guide!

By: Playing with Eshell — The Endeavour

Playing with Eshell — The Endeavour — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:26:41 +0000

[...] For much more on Eshell, see A Complete Guide to Mastering Eshell. [...]

By: jj

jj — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:28:58 +0000

Oh, and thanks for the nice tutorial.

By: jj

jj — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:19:59 +0000

alias cp ‘cp -i $*’ doesn’t work for me. When I define this alias I get “cp: missing destination file or directory”. I’m using emacs 23.3.

By: 迁移Emacs笔记 | Gossip Coder

迁移Emacs笔记 | Gossip Coder — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:04:38 +0000

[...] 2、eshell：一直在寻找Windows下CMD的替代品。试过不少，每次都很失望，直到在微博上看到有人介绍eshell，Emacs Shell。eshell中可以运行所有系统本身的命令，而且用elisp重新实现了ls、du、mv、rm、rmdir等命令。每次在Windows下输入ls终于不会再看到错误信息了。另外，eshell还可以运行emacs中的elisp函数，比如在emacs中打开文件用find-file命令。再加上alias，就可以给各种函数设置别名，方便得很。详细的教程见这里：Mastering Eshell。 [...]

By: SomeOne

SomeOne — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:32:27 +0000

Superb article — brilliant introduction to Eshell.

I have replace most of my Cygwin usage, was facing exactly the same problems as you mentioned.

By: What’s New In Emacs 24 (part 1) | Mastering Emacs

What’s New In Emacs 24 (part 1) | Mastering Emacs — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:24:53 +0000

[...] in this gem of a change. The author of pcomplete is John Wiegley — the same guy who wrote EShell — and in Eshell you can complete commandline arguments for things like kill, rmdir, etc. in [...]