From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: 02 Sep 2004 13:19:18 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: 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 1094123990 16395 80.91.224.253 (2 Sep 2004 11:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:19:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eclig@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 13:19:42 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 1C2pd0-00078v-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2phy-000828-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2phs-000823-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2phq-00081r-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2php-00081U-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2pch-000759-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 14133 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 11:19:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2004 11:19:19 -0000 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040901231417.GD29664@fencepost> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:26723 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26723 Miles Bader writes: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:23:07PM +0200, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > ! (defcustom eshell-explicit-command-char ?\\ > > "*If this char occurs before a command name, call it externally. > > ! That is, although vi may be an alias, \\vi will always call the > > ! external version." > > Might want to put something like "MS Windows users may want to change this to > another character to avoid conflicting with the path-separator syntax" (just > to rub it in ... :-) [actually, in emacs terms, that is directory separator syntax :-) ] 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.