From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:55:04 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <01c4950c$Blat.v2.2.2$553b1ca0@zahav.net.il> References: <20040901231417.GD29664@fencepost> <1c4qmgo3l4.fsf@tiscali.de> <01c4943f$Blat.v2.2.2$bd992f80@zahav.net.il> <87vfeqqby9.fsf@emacswiki.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094584145 8181 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2004 19:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 21:08:43 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 1C4l9O-0001no-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4lEc-0005WO-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4lEC-0005On-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4lE9-0005My-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4lE9-0005MH-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4l8W-00083o-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.146.142]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CML89956 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:56:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Alex Schroeder X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: <87vfeqqby9.fsf@emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:29:50 +0200) 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:26861 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26861 > From: Alex Schroeder > Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:29:50 +0200 > > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > > if you want to have OS-specific defaults for a character... > > I lost track a bit. Who's for OS-specific defaults? I don't know (and don't care much ;-). I understood that Richard decided that using `\' was the best solution to whatever problem started this thread. To that someone said that on Windows, users cannot be expected to use `\'. Someone else then said that there are no aliases on Windows and no character to disable alias substitution. My message was the response to that last claim: there _are_ aliases on Windows (through `doskey'), and the characters I suggested disable alias expansion in that case. I wrote that to give people who are discussing the matter information, not to express my views on whether it is a good idea to use an OS-specific character in this specific case. > I believe that OS-specific defaults are doing eshell users a > disservice. I agree that, in general, OS-specific defaults should be avoided, but Emacs does have them here and there.