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Requesting Testers For A New Emacs Shell Mode

I'm in the process of writing a new shell mode for Emacs, one that
improves upon currently-available shell modes such as cmushell and
Emacs's shell-mode.  It's nearly finished, but before I release it,
I'd like to have some other Emacs shell users give it a try, and give
me some feedback.  I've been using this mode on a regular basis for
the past year and it works well--on my machine with my shell and my
version of Emacs; I'd like to know how well the mode works with other
machines, shells, and Emacs versions.

This new shell-mode, which I call j-shell, has the following
features:

	Improved directory tracking
	Built-in filename completion
	Password prompt detection (passwords don't echo)
	Command history and functions for browsing it
	Improved navigation commands
	Prevents pty buffer overflow (^G problem)
	An alternate mode-line to display the working dir

Originally I designed j-shell to work with tcsh (the shell I prefer),
but I have since made it flexible so as to work with csh, ksh, zsh,
and bash--any shell that is capable of aliasing its cd and related
commands.  The only shell I know not to work is sh, because its cd
command can't be aliased.  I'm hoping to hear from a variety of shell
users so as to test j-shell extensively on all shells.

If anyone is interested in helping me test j-shell, drop me a line:
jimt@sugar.neosoft.com; please mention what sort of system you use
(hardware and OS version), what shell you use, and what version of
Emacs you run.

Jim
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