> I imagine some of the programming language specific shells mentioned in the article have found ways of solving these problems, and I would be interested in he

> I imagine some of the programming language specific shells mentioned in the article have found ways of solving these problems, and I would be interested in hearing what those solutions are. Eshell does a great job at this; it feels like a shell, but it also feels like invoking lisp functions. Obviously you're not typing direct function invocations otherwise you would have to quote all your strings, etc; but it's pretty close. You can pipe output from processes straight into Emacs buffers or even into functions. All the shell commands that have nicer Emacs equivalents (grep, top, man, etc) get intercepted so you get the enhanced hyperlinks in grep results, etc. I find it absolutely indispensible. http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/12/13/complete-guide-mastering-eshell/ http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/12/13/complete-g...