From: Aidan Gauland Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:14:16 +0000 (+1300) Subject: * eshell.texi (What Eshell is not): Clean up confusing clause. X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~173^2^2~42^2~45^2~387^2~78 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22db5dd5ed7c5d18e8247e91093195ca7af38361;p=emacs.git * eshell.texi (What Eshell is not): Clean up confusing clause. --- diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog index 4d0f08fb0c9..871af434e05 100644 --- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2014-01-03 Aidan Gauland + + * eshell.texi (What Eshell is not): Clean up confusing clause. + 2014-01-03 Glenn Morris * efaq-w32.texi, reftex.texi: Use @insertcopying in non-TeX. diff --git a/doc/misc/eshell.texi b/doc/misc/eshell.texi index 21789b9af01..38c17c36f5a 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eshell.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eshell.texi @@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ it's easier than it looks: @code{ls -lt **/*.doc(Lk+50aM+5)}.} Eshell is @emph{not} a replacement for system shells such as @command{bash} or @command{zsh}. Use Eshell when you want to move text between Emacs and external processes; if you only want to pipe -output from one external process to another, to another, use a system -shell, because Emacs's IO system is buffer oriented, not stream -oriented, and is very inefficient at such tasks. If you want to write -shell scripts in Eshell, don't; either write an elisp library or use a -system shell. +output from one external process to another (and then another, and so +on), use a system shell, because Emacs's IO system is buffer oriented, +not stream oriented, and is very inefficient at such tasks. If you +want to write shell scripts in Eshell, don't; either write an elisp +library or use a system shell. Some things Eshell just doesn't do well. It fills the niche between IELM and your system shell, where the peculiar use-cases lie, and it