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Re: small Eshell docfix
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John Wiegley |
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Re: small Eshell docfix |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:58:15 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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
Re: small Eshell docfix, Emilio Lopes, 2004/08/30