From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emilio Lopes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:06:32 +0200 Organization: private Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4cvfet7q9j.fsf@tiscali.de> References: <20040901231417.GD29664@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094330648 839 80.91.224.253 (4 Sep 2004 20:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 22:43:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3hO7-0003ah-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:43:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3hTD-0003yW-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3hT6-0003yH-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3hT4-0003xw-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3hT4-0003xm-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.26.116.129] (helo=webmail.tiscali.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C3hNq-0004Vw-Dd; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from jumeira.tiscali.de (62.246.20.45) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.7.019) id 40FB89A000FE15EB; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:43:37 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eclig@gmx.net In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:23:24 -0400") User-Agent: Emacs Gnus X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26778 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26778 Richard Stallman writes: > But why don't we just let the default depend on > system-type > (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) ?* > ?\\) > Lots of other default settings already depend on > system-type, so I don't see why this is any different, > as long as we get the proper default for GNU. > It is fine to do this, if the best default is different > for different systems. For users of DOS-like systems there is no "best" default, since DOS command interpreters don't offer such functionality. Indeed one of the advantages of Eshell is the uniform interface across different systems, only possible because it's written in Elisp. Make it gratuitously behave differently without any advantage from this change is counter-productive for the users.