Re: who needs es..?

[pete@minster.york.ac.uk]

I think Steve is not far off the mark. Like most of the users on this list I
started out very enthusiastic about es, but found that in day-to-day use it
is too big and slow! 

I'm not bothered about things like job control; I'd rather not have it, in
fact, since I work in windowing systems or via multiple telnets from PCs most
of the time.

If es has had any significant effect on my everyday usage, it's probably been
in making me appreciate the need for simplicity in shells. I've gone back to
rc for every environment (sun3, sparc and rs6000) that I use regularly, but I
do have some hairier scripts written in es now, particularly ones that I'd 
formerly have used Perl for.

pete