Re: who needs es..?

[<msb@cats.ucsc.edu>]

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

When I first saw announcements for es, I jumped at it.  "wow! that 
sounds cool!," and it was.  The silliness of tcsh and zsh had been 
getting to me more than normal, I like playing with new shells, so 
I thought I'd give it a try.

I don't use it for much of anything though....  most of the time, 
I need a shell with job control in it, and when I don't, I find 
myself using rc.  I haven't deleted the shell yet, and just may 
get around to learning the more "esoteric" features for use in 
scripts, but I'm not sure I ever will---if rc or sh doesn't handle 
it, my scripts tend to be in perl.  

I'll continue to follow discussions about es's development, and 
play with new releases as they happen, but w/o job control, I 
can't ever picture es as being very useful.
> steve "goin' down in flames" kilbane

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