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Eshell was what brought me to Emacs in the first place, as it is a shell that works the same way on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and thereby saved my sanity.
by Derbasti 9y ago
Eshell was what brought me to Emacs in the first place, as it is a shell that works the same way on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and thereby saved my sanity.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoDo you mean, more than e.g. bash compiled for Windows? I used that (msys?) bash for a few years on Windows and it was... well it was bash. It comes with standard Git for Windows install. Or is there more to it?
- Derbasti 9y agoBash on Windows is like using a flightstick in a car. It sure works, but they weren't built for each other. Eshell is just Emacs, and Emacs doesn't make much of a difference between OSes. The point is, Emacs comes with a lot of tools that would normally be executables called by the shell (unavailable on Windows) and deals with paths in a consistent way. Besides, this was before git came with git bash on Windows.