From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [david.hansen@gmx.net: Re: comint's directory tracking doesn't understand \( or \)]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:30:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851wk4mvsu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkic61r4.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (David Hansen's message of "Mon\, 05 Mar 2007 00\:13\:35 +0100")
David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:26:30 -0500 Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>> I don't think we should make the proposed change to comint.el. AFAIK,
>> the detailed rules for how backslash escape works is, in principle,
>> different from shell to shell, and even if we choose to obey (e.g.)
>> bash semantics for backslash escapes, we might still be incompatible
>> with other shells.
>
> It's an *sh* semantic, not bash. Do you know of any non sh
> compatible interactive shell that is widely used?
csh and its ilk are actually in non-trivial use. Their respective
suckage level for interactive use appears tolerable for some people.
One has to be aware that some interactive aids like history
manipulation and command completion appeared first in that family, and
some people were more comfortable with C-like syntax.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-04 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-02 17:44 [david.hansen@gmx.net: Re: comint's directory tracking doesn't understand \( or \)] Richard Stallman
2007-03-04 13:13 ` David Hansen
2007-03-04 15:45 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-04 15:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 19:26 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-04 19:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 19:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-04 20:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 20:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-04 19:47 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-04 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-04 22:06 ` Andreas Seltenreich
2007-03-04 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-04 23:13 ` David Hansen
2007-03-04 23:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-03-05 2:09 ` David Hansen
2007-03-04 19:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-04 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 23:22 ` Chris Moore
2007-03-04 23:23 ` Tom Tromey
2007-03-05 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-05 6:23 ` David Hansen
2007-03-05 21:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-06 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-06 3:10 ` David Hansen
2007-03-06 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-07 0:48 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-07 14:49 ` David Hansen
2007-03-08 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-09 19:55 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-09 20:28 ` Glenn Morris
2007-03-09 20:45 ` David Hansen
2007-03-09 21:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-10 0:04 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-10 8:06 ` David Hansen
2007-03-10 20:18 ` Chong Yidong
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