From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:58:15 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093852730 29232 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 07:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 09:58:43 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 1C1h3r-0000Jw-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:58:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1h8f-0003eW-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1h8H-0003dW-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1h8F-0003cd-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1h8F-0003cT-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.30] (helo=frontend1.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1h3N-0005kT-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:58:14 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: XA41AFtMFBJIx1q8cmJGUw 1093852693 Original-Received: from Majnun.local (adsl-64-164-0-131.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.164.0.131]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21731C14B71 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:58:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Majnun.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 494773C1832; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:31:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) 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:26614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26614 Richard Stallman writes: > (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? Actually, I think everybody would prefer it to be *. The only reason I said that in the comment is that ksh uses "\word" to override any alias defined for "word". Feel free to remove that line from the documentation. John