From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:45:03 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040907234503.GA6694@fencepost> References: <20040901231417.GD29664@fencepost> <1c4qmgo3l4.fsf@tiscali.de> <01c4943f$Blat.v2.2.2$bd992f80@zahav.net.il> <87vfeqqby9.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094600745 14431 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2004 23:45:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 01:45:40 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 1C4pee-0006dp-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:45:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pjt-0000yA-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pjj-0000y4-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pji-0000xs-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pji-0000xp-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4pe4-0007hU-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C4pe3-0002hN-J3; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:45:03 -0400 Original-To: John Wiegley Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:26867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26867 On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:28:36PM -0700, John Wiegley wrote: > Which begs the question: What is wrong with the current default? All > this discussion seems to have sprung from an unfortunate reference to > UNIX in the docstring. How about we just fix the docstring, and leave > the code alone? Huh? It's different that what other unix shells use -- people are used to `\' suppressing aliases, so it's only natural that they'll try it in eshell. As to your point about aliases vs. eshell builtins, I have no idea. I'm not sure whether people really care about the distinction or not (personally I only use \ in specific well-known circumstances; given my restricted usage, I'd probably be happy enough if \ only suppressed aliases). -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.