From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23597 invoked from network); 18 May 1999 17:01:50 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 May 1999 17:01:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 17902 invoked by alias); 18 May 1999 17:01:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6310 Received: (qmail 17894 invoked from network); 18 May 1999 17:01:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19990518100116.A3994@zagzig.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:01:16 -0700 From: Bart Schaefer To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Anybody watching eshell development? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 There've been a flurry of postings on gnu.emacs.sources by John Wiegley of his new "eshell" package, a shell implemented directly in elisp. It already has insanely complicated parameter expansion syntax and multios with redirection to elisp variables and emacs buffers as well as files; it executes elisp as well as external commands (and can substitute the output as expansions), and it works relatively seamlessly with ange-ftp so you can "cd" into remote directories and execute many commands as if the files were local; it has what he describes as tcsh-style completion on the tab key, with plans to extend it to auto-indent multiline input. I haven't actually tried it yet, but wondered whether any of you have. BTW, my home machine is back on-line, now as a RedHat 5.2 installation, which means I've been flung violently from the libc5 world to glibc6. I'm still attempting to recover some stuff from my trashed disk, too, but it's not looking very good. Anyway, I hope to be catching up with zsh stuff by the end of the week, to get a 3.0.6-pre3 patch on the way. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com