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Re: small Eshell docfix
From: |
Emilio Lopes |
Subject: |
Re: small Eshell docfix |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:43:39 +0200 |
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Emacs Gnus |
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? Or
> does it intnded to mean users of GNU/Linux, Solaris, and
> BSD as opposed to Windows?
The later, I would say.
Do you think "Users of most other shells might prefer..." or
something like that would be better?
> Whatever's best for GNU/Linux should be the default.
That would probable be `?\\', but `?*' is already the
default for sometime now.