[ILUG] Bash and Lisp

[Paul O'Malley]

Karl Carlile wrote:

>I have been studying emacs list. Can anyone explain the relationship beween
>between bash and lisp languages. Do you think I am right for using 3 emacs for 
>bboth bash and elisps. Can you recommend any good books or docs on emacs, 
>basj and elisp.
>Karl
>  
>
Hi Karl,

Bash is the shell upon which emacs runs. emacs provides a very powerful
environment, some info from the man pages of both is here:

GNU  Emacs is a version of Emacs, written by the author of the original
       (PDP-10) Emacs, Richard Stallman.
       The primary documentation of GNU Emacs is  in  the  GNU  Emacs 
Manual,
       which  you  can  read on line using Info, a subsystem of Emacs. 
Please
       look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.  This man
page is
       updated  only  when someone volunteers to do so; the Emacs
maintainers’
       priority goal is to minimize the amount of time  this  man  page 
takes
       away from other more useful projects.
       The  user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses everything other
Emacs
       editors do, and it is easily extensible since its editing
commands  are
       written in Lisp.

Bash  is  an  sh-compatible  command language interpreter that executes
       commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also
incor‐
       porates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).

       Bash  is  intended  to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE
POSIX
       Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

This infomation was obtained by the following commands:
man bash
man emacs

bash provides access to the system for emacs in a lot of cases.

However you can write anything you want in emacs:
http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/category/hacking/lisp/

For shell info this may be of some use to you:
http://linux.ittoolbox.com/nav/t.asp?t=428&p=428&h1=428

However your question has many possible answers, this is just one of them.

Regards,

Paul O'Malley