From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell: how to alias cp 'cp -i' ? Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:44:22 +0200 Message-ID: <8524C32B-36C9-4359-BCE9-9CD485234459@Web.DE> References: <1188933532.622355.111700@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <87y7fksxoi.fsf@utanet.at> <1189035937.564847.293110@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189201487 28412 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 21:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: furue@hawaii.edu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 23:44:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITld8-00013D-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:44:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITld6-0003Ow-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITlcq-0003MK-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITlco-0003Jy-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITlco-0003Jn-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITlco-0001oY-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FF69A283F3; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:44:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [89.58.91.186] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1ITlcm-0000NJ-00; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:44:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1189035937.564847.293110@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+p8/NOx00r0AU1wSA6cWfI/tHmJxccor5tjQ+/ kgt0Go6dXo4fDwE+i1Y2S/MlMfhDd4PQwqEqwOuZ8sD2je7Crz lGFKpzjRmBHFrceqGXDQ== X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47316 Archived-At: Am 06.09.2007 um 01:45 schrieb furue@hawaii.edu: > My tentative solution is > > alias cp /bin/cp -i $* > > which works. This is asthetically incorrect because it doesn't > use eshell's builtin cp. Have you read about the variable eshell-cp-interactive-query? -- Greetings Pete "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." =96 Evan Esar