CategoryEshell

Eshell is a shell written in EmacsLisp. It is included as of Emacs 21.

Eshell was written by JohnWiegley, and later maintained by Aidan Gauland.

Categories

General Usage

• Aliases – Alias open to open-file etc.
• Functions – Writing functions in Eshell
• For Loops – Writing loops like for x in a b c do ...
• Globbing – Expanding wildcards such as *.txt
• Auto-Jump – use ‘j’ to jump to your favorite directories
• Backticks – Replace a command in `backticks` with its output.

Interfacing with Other Modes

• EshellAndAngeFtp – using eshell on remote hosts
• EshellAndEmacsServer – Use eshell like a shell in a terminal-emulator
• EshellAndTramp – using eshell with tramp
• EshellAndViper – making Eshell and Viper play well together
• EshellScreen – make eshell interact with GNU screen
• EshellVisualCommands – starting certain commands in AnsiTerm
• EshellAndPdbTrack – how to make PdbTrack work with Eshell
• EshellInteractivelyRemove
• Eshell And DiredMode – using Eshell to read directories for dired: Customize variable ‘eshell-ls-use-in-dired’

Themes and Customization

• EshellColor – faces, escape sequences, etc.
• EshellCompletion
• EshellPrompt – changing your prompt

About Eshell

• EshellHistory and EshellDirectoryHistory
• EshellWishList – wish list and questions.
• EshellManual – Texinfo source for a reference manual based on the comments in the source
• EshellElDoc – ElDoc functionality for Eshell

Extending Eshell

• EshellEnhancedLS – RET- and mouse-sensitive ‘ls’ for Eshell
• EshellExtensions
• EshellBmk – integration between Eshell and bookmarks
• EshellScrolling – make eshell scroll to the bottom of the screen
• EshellWThirtyTwo – snippets that make a w32 user’s day brighter
• EshellControlFromOtherBuffer
• EshellIndicator
• EshellLnkFileSupport – support for Windows shortcut
• EshellRedirection – redirecting to files, to buffers and to the clipboard
• EshellMultipleEshellBuffers – Makes having multiple eshells open/cycling between them easier
• EshellNavigation

External Links

• The Eshell manual (TexInfo source)
• Source code (‘M-x find-library eshell RET’)
• Mastering Eshell
• Eschewing Z-Shell for Eshell
• Eshell completion for git, bzr, and hg
• Presenting Eshell
• Eshell is my main shell * [http://oneliner-elisp.sourceforge.net/ OneLiner - Integrate the UNIX shell with Emacs

CategoryShell