Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> man emacs RET

That's exactly how you type it with eshell.

I probably have missed part of the conversation, and apologize if that's
the case, but to me, there's no shell like eshell. You can mix external
commands ane internal emacs commands, either self-made or the ones part
of the distribution.

Guido.

> vs
>> M-x man RET emacs RET
>
> I largely agree.
> There's also
>
>   M-: (man "emacs") RET
>
> You could easily make the surrounding parentheses implicit (or
> pre-inserted), so that would be
>
>   M-: man "emacs" RET
>
> So the main remaining problem is the quotes.
> After all, for other functions, you'd want
>
>   M-: describe-function 'car RET
>
>
> -- Stefan