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Eshell is a command shell written in Emacs Lisp.

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How to open file in Emacs via eshell?

When in eshell is there a command for opening a file in another buffer?
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Advantages and disadvantages between zsh and emacs' (e)shell

i have currently switched over to emacs (aquamacs) and am in the process of migrating my entire workflow into it one step at a time (org-mode, dired, etc., from pathfinder, notational velocity, etc.). the one thing i have yet to try (and seems to be…
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Emacs ido-style shell

Is there a command line shell or shell customization that supports emacs-style ido find file? In emacs, I can navigate to a directory extremely quickly using C-x C-f and (ido-mode t). Ideally, I'm looking for a solution that can be used outside of…
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How to set an environment variable in emacs shell (eshell)?

I cannot seem to find this anywhere. A lot of times I run commands with an environment variable set like: export BLA=foo && ./somebinary How do i do this in eshell? I think the command is called set but i'm not sure how to use it, what would be the…
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Make eshell tab completion behave like Bash

How can I make eshell autocomplete behave like Bash and Emacs in general i.e. it offers a list of choices rather than arbitrary selects one for you? For example, if I have two directories "Download" and "Downloads", when I type "Down" and hit TAB,…
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git-log in eshell

I'm trying to run git commands in eshell. When I run: git log -p it will look like this: Notice that ^[[k before the cursor. Arrow key down does not work, it will gives error says 'Not found'. You can see that at minibuffer. The only way to scroll…
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What setup file does eshell (elisp shell) read when it starts? How eshell sets its PATH?

With emacs/eshell, the "echo $PATH" shows different paths than that of $PATH environment variable. And I also checked that eshell doesn't read .bashrc or .profile, and I think that's the reason why the path is different. What setup file does…
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eshell search history

I'm using emacs eshell and would like to search back through my command history. In bash you would do C-r then type something and then press C-r repeatedly until you find the command you want. On eshell it seems I have to type M-r and then type…
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Using RVM in eshell of Emacs

Using RVM in eshell of emacs, I am not able to set the ruby version. Why? Environment : Ubuntu 9.10 /media/Work/rubyworkspace $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux] /media/Work/rubyworkspace $ rvm use 1.9.2 Using…
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How to do git commits in Emacs buffers

The normal way that I work is to have a small eshell buffer and a larger buffer for the code I'm working on. I use the eshell buffer to do compilation and simple tests. If I want to do git commits, when I run it this way, I always get a new Emacs…
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What is difference between shell and eshell in emacs?

What is the difference between eshell (M-x eshell) and shell (M-x shell) in emacs. Both seems to work same but when i try to run su command or sudo command in eshell then it create a buffer named tramp/su root:localhost. but don't do the work which…
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Create more than one eshell instance in emacs

Think: tiling my emacs window with eshells, a la xmonad. Is this possible? I can M-x eshell to open the first eshell instance but future invocations just focus the first instance.
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Node.js prompt '>' can not show in eshell

I want to run Node.js in eshell, but the prompt does not right: So, how can I fix this?
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Case-insensitive matching with Eshell?

How can you do case-insensitive pattern matching with Eshell? With Zsh, one can use "globbing tags" (i.e., if the extended_glob is turned on) such as in print L(#i)in(#I)ux which would match LINux for instance. Is there anything like that for…
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How to write eshell script?

there. I'm new to eshell,and now i come to a problem that how can i script it. i've tried (rm ~/somefile) and it worked.so is every command like this?how should i write conditional code and loop?and what should i customize to make the system…
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