07/22/2009
Nightlies: Best Feature
As I mentioned before, I've been using the nightlies of emacs 23 lately. It's good stuff, I have new favorite features almost hourly. Right now, I have a couple favorites that are both part of eshell.
First, eshell now handles C-a like you expect. Previously, pressing C-a brought you back to the total beginning of the line, before your prompt. Now it brings you back to the end of the prompt, exactly like any regular shell.
Second is a feature this one will probably let me stay in eshell more than I already do. You can now redirect output to a file. Before, when you did date > thecurrentdate.txt it would tell you that you can't redirect output like that. Not anymore! That works like a charm now.
These two little things make eshell feel so much more robust. What else am I missing?
Now, if only git would work without telling me "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" ... but it's time I got comfortable with vc-mode anyways.