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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:45:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907234503.GA6694@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2n001zmjf.fsf@Majnun.local>

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:28:36PM -0700, John Wiegley wrote:
> Which begs the question: What is wrong with the current default?  All
> this discussion seems to have sprung from an unfortunate reference to
> UNIX in the docstring.  How about we just fix the docstring, and leave
> the code alone?

Huh?  It's different that what other unix shells use -- people are used to
`\' suppressing aliases, so it's only natural that they'll try it in eshell.

As to your point about aliases vs. eshell builtins, I have no idea.  I'm not
sure whether people really care about the distinction or not (personally I
only use \ in specific well-known circumstances; given my restricted usage,
I'd probably be happy enough if \ only suppressed aliases).

-Miles
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30  3:31 small Eshell docfix Richard Stallman
2004-08-30  7:58 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-30 13:14   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-30 13:46     ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-30 18:28     ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 22:03       ` John Wiegley
2004-08-31 22:06         ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01  5:45           ` Oliver Scholz
2004-09-02  4:53             ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 19:43 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-08-31 22:07   ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-31 23:19     ` John Wiegley
2004-09-01 19:24       ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 20:23     ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-01 23:14       ` Miles Bader
2004-09-02 11:19         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-02 19:47           ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-06  6:47             ` John Wiegley
2004-09-06 18:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 16:29                 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-07 18:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 22:41                     ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-08  3:53                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07 23:28                   ` John Wiegley
2004-09-07 23:45                     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-09-08  5:12                       ` John Wiegley
2004-09-03 17:23           ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-04 20:06             ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-05  4:23               ` Eli Zaretskii

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