I try to use Eshell for all my shell work. I’m not 100% successful but I mostly am so Eshell is an important part of my workflow. One of the things that makes using Eshell easier is aliases, just as it is in, say, a Bash shell. The thing is, I can never remember how to get them set up. <\/p>\n
That turns out to be pretty simple. Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short post<\/a> that makes me wonder why I even had a problem with it. It’s as simple as set it and forget it. Once you set an alias, Emacs will remember it for you. There’s a slight syntax variation between the Eshell If you’re an Eshell user, be sure to take a look at mbork’s post. It really can make your life easier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I try to use Eshell for all my shell work. I’m not 100% successful but I mostly am so Eshell is an important part of my workflow. One of the things that makes using Eshell easier is aliases, just as … Continue reading alias<\/code> command and the familiar Bash variant but once you’re aware of that, everything else is simple. Simpler, really, than in Bash where you have to set the aliases in a configuration file. <\/p>\n