From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [david.hansen@gmx.net: Re: comint's directory tracking doesn't understand \( or \)] Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:30:09 +0100 Message-ID: <851wk4mvsu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <871wk56tjh.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87wt1xhv0u.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <85ejo5j9bj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87irdgkdy1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkic61r4.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173051050 22661 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2007 23:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:30:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 00:30:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HO0A3-0001nh-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:30:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO0A2-000659-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO09q-00060n-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO09m-0005z1-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO09m-0005yy-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HO09k-0003nP-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9613028D0 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:30:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD1B2D3589 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:30:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-052-195.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.52.195]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3977112EC94 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:30:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D79421C460D3; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:30:09 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87lkic61r4.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (David Hansen's message of "Mon\, 05 Mar 2007 00\:13\:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67324 Archived-At: David Hansen writes: > On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:26:30 -0500 Chong Yidong wrote: > >> I don't think we should make the proposed change to comint.el. AFAIK, >> the detailed rules for how backslash escape works is, in principle, >> different from shell to shell, and even if we choose to obey (e.g.) >> bash semantics for backslash escapes, we might still be incompatible >> with other shells. > > It's an *sh* semantic, not bash. Do you know of any non sh > compatible interactive shell that is widely used? csh and its ilk are actually in non-trivial use. Their respective suckage level for interactive use appears tolerable for some people. One has to be aware that some interactive aids like history manipulation and command completion appeared first in that family, and some people were more comfortable with C-like syntax. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum