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- From: jimt@NeoSoft.com (Jim Thompson)
- Subject: Emacs shell-mode testers needed
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Distribution: na
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:01:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.010143.2925@NeoSoft.com>
- Followup-To: poster
- Keywords: Emacs, shell-mode
- Sender: jimt@sugar.neosoft.com
- Lines: 41
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- Requesting Testers For A New Emacs Shell Mode
-
- I'm in the process of writing a new shell mode for Emacs, one that
- improves upon currently-available shell modes such as cmushell and
- Emacs's shell-mode. It's nearly finished, but before I release it,
- I'd like to have some other Emacs shell users give it a try, and give
- me some feedback. I've been using this mode on a regular basis for
- the past year and it works well--on my machine with my shell and my
- version of Emacs; I'd like to know how well the mode works with other
- machines, shells, and Emacs versions.
-
- This new shell-mode, which I call j-shell, has the following
- features:
-
- Improved directory tracking
- Built-in filename completion
- Password prompt detection (passwords don't echo)
- Command history and functions for browsing it
- Improved navigation commands
- Prevents pty buffer overflow (^G problem)
- An alternate mode-line to display the working dir
-
- Originally I designed j-shell to work with tcsh (the shell I prefer),
- but I have since made it flexible so as to work with csh, ksh, zsh,
- and bash--any shell that is capable of aliasing its cd and related
- commands. The only shell I know not to work is sh, because its cd
- command can't be aliased. I'm hoping to hear from a variety of shell
- users so as to test j-shell extensively on all shells.
-
- If anyone is interested in helping me test j-shell, drop me a line:
- jimt@sugar.neosoft.com; please mention what sort of system you use
- (hardware and OS version), what shell you use, and what version of
- Emacs you run.
-
- Jim
- --
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- _| ~-. James C. Thompson | "The place to be happy is here.
- \, _} Webster, Texas | The time to be happy is now."
- \( jimt@sugar.neosoft.com | -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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