X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/d2fc7e3d0f6f57f962cbd94df3bf4fd15a37bb68..ddc412646dbcc51032cf438064d5eb4c8dded906:/doc/misc/eshell.texi diff --git a/doc/misc/eshell.texi b/doc/misc/eshell.texi index 0ae6a0e7fa..5011910033 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eshell.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eshell.texi @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ @copying This manual is for Eshell, the Emacs shell. -Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1999--2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ 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''. (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and -modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in -developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' +modify this GNU manual.'' @end quotation @end copying @@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' @node Top, What is Eshell?, (dir), (dir) @top Eshell -Eshell is a shell-like command interpretor +Eshell is a shell-like command interpreter implemented in Emacs Lisp. It invokes no external processes except for those requested by the user. It is intended to be a functional replacement for command shells such as @command{bash}, @command{zsh}, @@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ handling the sort of tasks accomplished by those tools. @cindex Eshell, what it is Eshell is a @dfn{command shell} written in Emacs Lisp. Everything it -does, it uses Emacs' facilities to do. This means that Eshell is as +does, it uses Emacs's facilities to do. This means that Eshell is as portable as Emacs itself. It also means that cooperation with Lisp code is natural and seamless. @@ -379,7 +378,7 @@ eshell/sudo is a compiled Lisp function in `em-unix.el' sudo is an alias, defined as "*sudo $*" @end example -Some of the built-in commands have a special behaviour in Eshell: +Some of the built-in commands have a special behavior in Eshell: @table @code @@ -608,7 +607,7 @@ scrolls back. @item Using C-p and C-n with rebind gets into a locked state -This happened a few times in Emacs 21, but has been unreproducible +This happened a few times in Emacs 21, but has been irreproducible since. @item If an interactive process is currently running, @kbd{M-!} doesn't work @@ -783,7 +782,7 @@ A special associate array, which can take references of the form @item Eshell scripts can't execute in the background -@item Support zsh's ``Parameter Expansion'' syntax, i.e. @samp{$@{@var{name}:-@var{val}@}} +@item Support zsh's ``Parameter Expansion'' syntax, i.e., @samp{$@{@var{name}:-@var{val}@}} @item Write an @command{info} alias that can take arguments @@ -814,7 +813,7 @@ way@dots{}). If input redirection is added, also update the With the handling of @emph{word} specified by an @code{eshell-special-alist}. -@item In @code{eshell-veal-using-options}, allow a @code{:complete} tag +@item In @code{eshell-eval-using-options}, allow a @code{:complete} tag It would be used to provide completion rules for that command. Then the macro will automagically define the completion function. @@ -869,7 +868,7 @@ It would call subcommands with @option{--help}, or @option{-h} or @item Implement @command{stty} in Lisp -@item Support @command{rc}'s matching operator, e.g. @samp{~ (@var{list}) @var{regexp}} +@item Support @command{rc}'s matching operator, e.g., @samp{~ (@var{list}) @var{regexp}} @item Implement @command{bg} and @command{fg} as editors of @code{eshell-process-list}