Re: who needs es..?

[Colman Reilly <creilly@maths.tcd.ie>]

     this list has been quiet 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 n eed to upgrade to 0.84.

Busy, on holidays and it works. 

     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 tha t's just cosmetic, at the level
     i'm working. 

Well I've lost track but I consider the cosmetic win huge, because it makes
life sp much  easier . . . I now have a shell with a usable syntax, which I
can remember without spitting a lot. 

I've been invloved in teaching a summer school for kiddies this year and I
just realised how horrible the csh and sh syntaxes are. They're so bitty
it's horrifying. Es being pretty is wonderful.

Colman

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