In this talk, Howard Abrams shows how eshell combines the best of Emacs Lisp and shells. Afterwards, he will handle questions via BigBlueButton. The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sun 2022-12-04. Solid lines show talks with Q&A via BigBlueButton. Dashed lines show talks with Q&A via IRC or Etherpad.
Schedule for Sunday Sunday 9:00- 9:05 Sunday opening remarks sun-open 9:06- 9:26 Results of the 2022 Emacs Survey survey 9:35- 9:45 This Year in Org orgyear 9:57-10:22 Build a Zettelkasten with the Hyperbole Rolodex rolodex 10:40-10:50 Linking headings with org-super-links (poor-man's Zettelkasten) orgsuperlinks 11:10-11:20 orgvm: a simple HTTP server for org orgvm 1:00- 1:30 Powerful productivity with Hyperbole and Org Mode hyperorg 1:50- 2:15 Org workflows for developers workflows 2:35- 2:55 GRAIL---A Generalized Representation and Aggregation of Information Layers grail 3:25- 3:45 Putting Org Mode on the Indieweb indieweb 4:05- 4:15 Emacs development updates devel 4:25- 4:35 Fanfare for the Common Emacs User fanfare 4:50- 5:00 Sunday closing remarks sun-close 10:00-10:25 rde Emacs introduction rde 10:50-11:05 justl: Driving recipes within Emacs justl 11:15-11:35 What I'd like to see in Emacs rms 1:01- 1:16 Getting detached from Emacs detached 1:40- 1:55 Top 10 reasons why you should be using Eshell eshell 2:20- 2:40 Emacs was async before async was cool async 3:15- 3:35 The Wheels on D-Bus dbus 4:00- 4:10 Pre-localizing Emacs localizing 4:30- 4:35 Short hyperlinks to Python docs python 9 AM 10 AM 11 AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM
[[!toc ]] Format: 15-min talk followed by live Q&A (done) Etherpad: Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-dev](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-dev) Status: Q&A finished, IRC and pad will be archived on this page [[!template id="vid" vidid="eshell-mainVideo" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-eshell--top-10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-eshell--howard-abrams--main.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-eshell--top-10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-eshell--howard-abrams--main.png" captions="""""" size="45M" duration="14:02" other_resources="""[Download --main.webm (45MB)](https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-eshell--top-10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-eshell--howard-abrams--main.webm) [Download --main.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-eshell--top-10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-eshell--howard-abrams--main.vtt) [Download --main--chapters.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-eshell--top-10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-eshell--howard-abrams--main--chapters.vtt) [View transcript](https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/eshell#eshell-mainVideo-transcript) [View on Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/w/ndrA731VbY2U6SP8onw3yw) """]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="eshell-mainVideo" data=""" 00:00:00.000 Introduction 00:29.000 1. It’s an Emacs REPL 00:48.600 2. It’s also a shell 01:10.120 3. You can mix these two modes 03:27.560 4. Emacs is better than shell 04:36.080 5. Better regular expressions 06:13.480 6. Loops are better with predicates 07:39.640 7. Output of last command 09:08.520 8. Redirection back to Emacs 10:26.880 9. Using Emacs buffers 12:28.400 10. cd to remote systems 12:59.360 Summary """]] # Description