Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell

[poppyer]

Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
> I am slowly discovering new features in emacs and I found out it has
> its own shell (eshell).
> Now, I wonder if it is a good investment to learn how to use it. I
> found tons of tutorials online (BTW: any recommendation to start me
> out?), but I am missing the big picture.
> I suppose that eshell must be perfectly integrated with emacs, but
> other than that are there reasons to give it preference with respect
> to .e.g BASH?
> Many thanks
>
> Lorenzo
>
>

I think one big problem is that ESHELL doesn't support input
redirection, such as: a.out < input.txt


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