From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix Date: 30 Aug 2004 15:46:58 +0200 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 1093873667 17841 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 13:47:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 15:47:31 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 1C1mVP-0004gC-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:47:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1maE-0006Kj-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1ma5-0006Hb-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1ma2-0006Fy-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1ma2-0006Fk-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1mUw-0000qI-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 33469 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 13:47:01 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 13:47:01 -0000 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:26620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26620 Stefan Monnier writes: > > 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 > > Not only ksh. Pretty much all shells from either the bourne or csh family > use that convention it seems. I actually mis-read the original doc strings several times before getting the meaning ... external version. UNIX users may prefer this variable to be \." external version. UNIX users may prefer this variable to be \\." I read it as .. "to be period" rather than "to be backslash" ... A better wording (that also avoids mentioning UNIX) may be: external version. Users of bash and similar shells may prefer to use \\ here. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk