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: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:12:06 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040901231417.GD29664@fencepost> <1c4qmgo3l4.fsf@tiscali.de> <01c4943f$Blat.v2.2.2$bd992f80@zahav.net.il> <87vfeqqby9.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20040907234503.GA6694@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094620349 14615 80.91.224.253 (8 Sep 2004 05:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 07:12:21 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 1C4ukm-00024j-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:12:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4uq2-0002lP-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4upv-0002kg-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4upu-0002kS-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4upu-0002kP-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.31] (helo=frontend2.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4ukQ-0002B3-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:11:58 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: WNNaY3O5WdewpAXsSQffhw 1094620318 Original-Received: from Majnun.local (adsl-68-124-233-228.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [68.124.233.228]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3BF56B9CE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 01:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Majnun.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id BAAE03D614C; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040907234503.GA6694@fencepost> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:45:03 -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:26876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26876 Miles Bader writes: > 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. "people" is the assumption in question. Eshell has been using '*' as the alias escape character for five years now. Has it been a problem? John