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* eshell.texi (What Eshell is not): Clean up confusing clause.
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2014-01-03 Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@amuri.net>
* eshell.texi (What Eshell is not): Clean up confusing clause.
2014-01-03 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* efaq-w32.texi, reftex.texi: Use @insertcopying in non-TeX.
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@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ it's easier than it looks: @code{ls -lt **/*.doc(Lk+50aM+5)}.}
Eshell is @emph{not} a replacement for system shells such as
@command{bash} or @command{zsh}. Use Eshell when you want to move
text between Emacs and external processes; if you only want to pipe
output from one external process to another
, to another, use a system
shell, because Emacs'
s
IO
system
is
buffer
oriented
,
not
stream
oriented
,
and
is
very
inefficient
at
such
tasks
.
If
you
want
to
write
shell
scripts
in
Eshell
,
don
't; either write an elisp
library or use a
system shell.
output from one external process to another
(and then another, and so
on), use a system
shell, because Emacs'
s
IO
system
is
buffer
oriented
,
not
stream
oriented
,
and
is
very
inefficient
at
such
tasks
.
If
you
want
to
write
shell
scripts
in
Eshell
,
don
't; either write an elisp
library or use a
system shell.
Some things Eshell just doesn'
t
do
well
.
It
fills
the
niche
between
IELM
and
your
system
shell
,
where
the
peculiar
use
-
cases
lie
,
and
it
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