who needs es..?

[steve <steve@zombie.gec-epl.co.uk>]

this list has been quite for a long time now, so everyone's either too busy,
bored with it, or es now Just Works, and perfectly at that.:-) I've been
using es as my login shell ever since 0.82, and i still haven't felt the need
to upgrade to 0.84.

however, apart from paul's path-caching and autoload functions, i don't think
i *ever* use anything that es does that rc can't do as well. ok, so maybe my
function definitions look a little nicer with the named arguments, but that's
just cosmetic, at the level i'm working. i definitely haven't yet needed to
do any spoofing, or made use of rich return values in scripts of my own. and
when i *do* need to write any scripts of real size, they're done in either
sh or rc, depending on the environment they're aimed at.

so, i'm just wondering, is es being used properly and fully by people, or is
it just serious overkill for a shell?

steve "goin' down in flames" kilbane