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 16:28:36 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094599733 12395 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2004 23:28:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 01:28:47 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 1C4pOJ-0005jP-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:28:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pTY-00062h-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pTR-00062W-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pTP-000623-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4pTP-000620-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.31] (helo=frontend2.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4pO0-0004vV-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:28:28 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: EQ02/9PrB7D+8/ShCEtksw 1094599704 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 88992775 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Majnun.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 598B13D5B12; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87vfeqqby9.fsf@emacswiki.org> (Alex Schroeder's message of "Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:29:50 +0200") 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:26866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26866 Alex Schroeder writes: > I believe that OS-specific defaults are doing eshell users a > disservice. I use both a GNU/Linux system at home and Windows at > work. I use eshell on both machines regularly. When I use eshell, > I'm not interested in OS-specific defaults. I'm interested in the > uniform interface Emacs provides on both platforms. My feeling exactly. If there is to be a default, I would like to see it functional on all platforms. Which begs the question: What is wrong with the current default? All this discussion seems to have sprung from an unfortunate reference to UNIX in the docstring. How about we just fix the docstring, and leave the code alone? John