Re: who needs es..?

[dm@hri.com]

I guess I've used es.  I decided early on that I wanted the Korn
shell's $_ variable to get the last argument from the previous line.
It was not too hard to do this by changing ES's interpreter loop
(though the result is still a compromise, since it generates an
occasional spurious syntax error).

I haven't noticed the weight issue because I came to ES from the Korn
shell.  The move to ES was motivated by a move to a new job where we
don't have the Korn shell.  Once I got used to the arcane (from the
perspective of a person who's used the Bourne shell for 14 years)
syntax, I grew unwilling to go back.

And, while I HAVE missed job control, the combination of emacs
shell-windows and X windows pretty much makes up for it (hmm, emacs &
X, there's another reason I haven't noticed the ``weight'' issue...).