EshellManual

Here is a longer EshellTexi than what comes in the eshell tarball. It was posted to comp.emacs on 2001-09-07 by Christoph Conrad.

NicFerrier has turned this texi into an installable package

The github repo for this is here.


Since sitting down to write a complete manual has always seemed such an onerous task, I’m asking anyone who has something to say to contribute documentation for Eshell, the Emacs Shell.

Unfortunately, this Wiki doesn’t work as well for me, since I don’t have convenient access to the text. So, care to jump on over to another one? I’m running an emacs-wiki-mode based Wiki on my home machine. You can edit the docs from here:

To read a Japanese translation:

To read a Spanish translation:


The real problem with keeping the source for those files on the Emacs Wiki server is that I can’t work on them when I’m remote with my laptop. What would work best for me is if they were kept under CVS on your server, which I could then download, and later merge and re-upload when I’d finished making remote changes of my own. So, I need two things: The possibility of public contribution, and the ability to edit/navigate the files locally as well – whether or not I’m connected to the Net. By keeping the files on alice.dynodns.net, I do have them under CVS, and so can handle merging and conflicts with no problem. – JohnWiegley

Eventually WikiRemote is supposed to solve this problem, but it needs some work. ^_^ – AlexSchroeder


 From: JohnWiegley
 Subject: Re: eshell docu? 
 Newsgroups: comp.emacs
 Date: 2001-09-10 11:43:56 PST 

Heh, that’s funny. The old documentation IS the sources, with the code deleted. In the old days I intended Eshell to be self-documenting, but after a discussion with RMS I came to realize that presenting information is a different thing from merely recording information about it.

However, in all that time many other projects have come my way. True to the free software model, if someone is willing to pay me for documentation (the “support” side of this project), I am more than willing to put time into it.

John


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