Re: small Eshell docfix

[Emilio Lopes]

Richard Stallman writes:

[ refering to `eshell-explicit-command-char' ]

>     That would probable be `?\\', but `?*' is already the
>     default for sometime now.

> It seems \ is a better default, makes the GNU system more
> coherent overall.  I think people will get used to the
> change.

Here is a patch.  This change should probably be announced in the NEWS
file.  Something like

** The default value of `eshell-explicit-command-char' was
changed to `\' to be consistent with the rest of the GNU system.


2004-09-01  Emilio C. Lopes  <address@hidden>

        * eshell/esh-ext.el (eshell-explicit-command-char): Changed
        default value to ?\\.  Modified docstring accordingly.


*** lisp/eshell/esh-ext.el.~1.15.~      Mon Jan  5 13:27:42 2004
--- lisp/eshell/esh-ext.el      Wed Sep  1 22:06:27 2004
***************
*** 148,157 ****
    :type 'integer
    :group 'eshell-ext)
  
! (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)
  
--- 148,157 ----
    :type 'integer
    :group 'eshell-ext)
  
! (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."
    :type 'character
    :group 'eshell-ext)