From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:31:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093836747 32365 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 03:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 05:32:21 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 1C1cu5-0007M8-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 05:32:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1cyt-00082f-4f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1cym-00082Z-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1cym-00082K-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1cyl-00082H-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1ctX-0005BQ-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C1ctW-0006hG-Kn; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:31:46 -0400 Original-To: Emilio Lopes 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:26608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26608 (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? Why would they be different? Or does it intnded to mean users of GNU/Linux, Solaris, and BSD as opposed to Windows? Whatever's best for GNU/Linux should be the default.