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: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:43:39 +0200 Organization: private Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093895383 19571 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 19:49:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 21:49:30 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 1C1s9i-0003l5-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:49:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sEY-00071F-2c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sEQ-0006zW-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sEO-0006xB-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1sEO-0006x8-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.26.116.129] (helo=webmail.tiscali.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1s9D-0001uW-Ue; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from jumeira.tiscali.de (62.246.18.101) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.7.019) id 40FB885A00EA99AB; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:48:56 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eclig@gmx.net In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:31:46 -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:26625 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26625 Richard Stallman writes: > (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. UNIX users may prefer this variable to be \\." > :type 'character :group 'eshell-ext) > When it says "UNIX users", who does that mean? Does it > mean users of Solaris and BSD as opposed to GNU/Linux? Or > does it intnded to mean users of GNU/Linux, Solaris, and > BSD as opposed to Windows? The later, I would say. Do you think "Users of most other shells might prefer..." or something like that would be better? > Whatever's best for GNU/Linux should be the default. That would probable be `?\\', but `?*' is already the default for sometime now.