From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:28:27 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093890542 4401 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 18:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 20:28:51 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 1C1qtf-0005TN-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1qyV-0006l2-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1qyL-0006h4-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1qyK-0006g5-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1qyK-0006ft-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1qtI-0005nT-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C1qtH-0001dC-Hu; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:28:27 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 30 Aug 2004 09:14:03 -0400) 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:26623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26623 Not only ksh. Pretty much all shells from either the bourne or csh family use that convention it seems. In that case, why isn't \ the default for this variable?