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MutantMahesh
MutantMahesh

Reputation: 1717

What is difference between shell and eshell in emacs?

What is the difference between eshell (M-x eshell) and shell (M-x shell) in emacs. Both seems to work same but when i try to run su command or sudo command in eshell then it create a buffer named tramp/su root:localhost. but don't do the work which i want to do as super user.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2177

Answers (1)

harpo
harpo

Reputation: 43158

In short eshell is a shell emulator (written in Emacs-Lisp), while shell is an interface to sh or whatever (external) system shell you're using.

eshell should behave like most "Bourne-style" shells that you're familiar with, but does not have the external dependency that shell has. Thus, it can be run on any system that runs emacs.

Upvotes: 17

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