[OS X Emacs] Re: How to efficiently work with shells/term? drag & drop, history, several instances

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Thu Sep 22 09:26:02 EDT 2011


David Reitter wrote:
> Jonathan Groll wrote:
> 
>> M-x shell is a 'different' shell written in elisp. It isn't bash or
>> whatever you're used to. And since it is written in elisp it also
>> works on architectures such as windows.
> 
> Sorry, could you please cite a source for that?
> 
> In my M-x shell, I get:
> 
>>  echo $SHELL
>> /bin/bash
> 

Jonathan was thinking of eshell I believe.  So, that's yet another 
choice.  Try M-x eshell

Rodney




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