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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.<div class="schedule-in-context schedule-svg-container" data-slug="eshell">
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font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> survey</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/orgyear" title="This Year in Org" data-slug="orgyear"> <title>  9:35- 9:45 This Year in Org</title> <rect x="54" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="15" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(67,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> orgyear</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/rolodex" title="Build a Zettelkasten with the Hyperbole Rolodex" data-slug="rolodex"> <title>  9:57-10:22 Build a Zettelkasten with the Hyperbole Rolodex</title> <rect x="89" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="39" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(126,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> rolodex</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/orgsuperlinks" title="Linking headings with org-super-links (poor-man's Zettelkasten)" data-slug="orgsuperlinks"> 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rde</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/justl" title="justl: Driving recipes within Emacs" data-slug="justl"> <title> 10:50-11:05 justl: Driving recipes within Emacs</title> <rect x="172" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="23" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(193,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> justl</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/rms" title="What I'd like to see in Emacs" data-slug="rms"> <title> 11:15-11:35 What I'd like to see in Emacs</title> <rect x="211" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(240,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> rms</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/detached" title="Getting detached from Emacs" data-slug="detached"> <title>  1:01- 1:16 Getting detached from Emacs</title> <rect x="378" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="23" 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Format: 15-min talk followed by live Q&A (<https://emacsconf.org/current/eshell/room>)  
Etherpad: <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2022-eshell>  
Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-dev](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-dev)  
Status: Q&A open for participation  
<div>Times in different timezones:</div><div class="times" start="2022-12-04T18:40:00Z" end="2022-12-04T18:55:00Z"><div class="conf-time">Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~1:40 PM - 1:55 PM EST (US/Eastern)</div><div class="others"><div>which is the same as:</div>Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~12:40 PM - 12:55 PM CST (US/Central)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~11:40 AM - 11:55 AM MST (US/Mountain)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~10:40 AM - 10:55 AM PST (US/Pacific)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~6:40 PM - 6:55 PM UTC <br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~7:40 PM - 7:55 PM CET (Europe/Paris)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~8:40 PM - 8:55 PM EET (Europe/Athens)<br />Monday, Dec 5 2022, ~12:10 AM - 12:25 AM IST (Asia/Kolkata)<br />Monday, Dec 5 2022, ~2:40 AM - 2:55 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)<br />Monday, Dec 5 2022, ~3:40 AM - 3:55 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)</div></div><div><a href="/2022/watch/dev/">Find out how to watch and participate</a></div>

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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

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