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Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...
But with some cleverness, Eshell can help you get insights to your data faster by leveraging all the tools Emacs can offer for this (occur, highlighting, grep, etc. IMHO, Eshell is best thought primarily as a prompt for Elisp/Emacs functionality with the secondary benefit of running command line utilities with a “shell-like” experience. That said, Eshell is actually a great way to start learning Elisp as it provides you a prompt interface (REPL) in much the same way that other languages like Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Swift, etc do.
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