@settitle Eshell: The Emacs Shell
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual'',
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual'',
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
If you would prefer to use the built-in commands instead of the external
commands, set @code{eshell-prefer-lisp-functions} to @code{t}.
-Some of the built-in commands have different behaviour from their
+Some of the built-in commands have different behavior from their
external counterparts, and some have no external counterpart. Most of
these will print a usage message when given the @code{--help} option.
incompatibilities. Most globbing is pattern-based expansion, but there
is also predicate-based expansion. See
@ref{Filename Generation, , , zsh, The Z Shell Manual}
-for full syntax. To customize the syntax and behaviour of globbing in
+for full syntax. To customize the syntax and behavior of globbing in
Eshell see the Customize@footnote{@xref{Easy Customization, , , emacs,
The GNU Emacs Manual}.}
groups ``eshell-glob'' and ``eshell-pred''.
The buffer redirection operator, @code{>>>}, expects a buffer object
on the right-hand side, into which it inserts the output of the
left-hand side. e.g., @samp{echo hello >>> #<buffer *scratch*>}
-inserts the string @code{"hello"} into the @code{*scratch*} buffer.
+inserts the string @code{"hello"} into the @file{*scratch*} buffer.
@code{eshell-virtual-targets} is a list of mappings of virtual device
names to functions. Eshell comes with two virtual devices:
by adding a list of the form @samp{("/dev/name" @var{function} @var{mode})} to
@code{eshell-virtual-targets}. The first element is the device name;
@var{function} may be either a lambda or a function name. If
-@var{mode} is nil, then the function is the output function; if it is
-non-nil, then the function is passed the redirection mode as a
+@var{mode} is @code{nil}, then the function is the output function; if it is
+non-@code{nil}, then the function is passed the redirection mode as a
symbol--@code{overwrite} for @code{>}, @code{append} for @code{>>}, or
@code{insert} for @code{>>>}--and the function is expected to return
the output function.