Confession

[hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)]

Long, long ago (well, last week actually) Paul wrote:

> (she?  are there currently any female es users? :-)

Unlikely.  Girls are usually too practical.  They just want to get the
job done rather than playing with the neatest tools around.

Myself, though I almost exclusively use es these days, stoop to the
most horrible abominations to get my work done.  Playing around with
emacs 19 I needed to know which of the *.el files were newer than
their compiled counterparts.  So I wrote this function:

fn new-el { return \
 `{bash -c 'for x in *.el; do [ $x -nt ${x}c ] && echo $x; done'}}

Yes, I can already hear you gagging and retching...  Sure es is nice,
but don't move that old kitchen sink out of the building quite yet,
huh?  ;->

- Harald