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author | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2017-10-01 13:31:39 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2017-10-01 13:31:39 +0200 |
commit | 1ba3471b9b443f0617662f4a50439bec211162ba (patch) | |
tree | 244aa5b171c4796e850d3ab1bfa8ddcc9d2772a8 | |
parent | 7abb5c39601a420bf74db41e2d70f8e36d07e349 (diff) | |
download | emacs-1ba3471b9b443f0617662f4a50439bec211162ba.tar.gz |
eshell.texi improvements
* doc/misc/eshell.texi (Built-ins): eshell/sudo is a compiled
Lisp function in `em-tramp.el'. Mention also $*, $1, $2, ...
(Aliases): Add $*, $1, $2, ... to the variable index.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/eshell.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/misc/eshell.texi b/doc/misc/eshell.texi index 8a607ef7702..73f9a9562b1 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eshell.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eshell.texi @@ -239,7 +239,6 @@ especially for file names with special characters like pipe (@code{|}), which could be part of remote file names. @node Built-ins - @section Built-in commands Several commands are built-in in Eshell. In order to call the external variant of a built-in command @code{foo}, you could call @@ -258,7 +257,7 @@ alias, @ref{Aliases}. Example: @example ~ $ which sudo -eshell/sudo is a compiled Lisp function in `em-unix.el' +eshell/sudo is a compiled Lisp function in `em-tramp.el'. ~ $ alias sudo '*sudo $*' ~ $ which sudo sudo is an alias, defined as "*sudo $*" @@ -419,6 +418,9 @@ Lisp functions, based on successful completion). @end table +@ref{Aliases} for the built-in variables @samp{$*}, @samp{$1}, +@samp{$2}, @dots{}, in alias definitions. + @node Variables @section Variables Since Eshell is just an Emacs REPL@footnote{Read-Eval-Print Loop}, it @@ -429,6 +431,7 @@ would in an Elisp program. Eshell provides a command version of @node Aliases @section Aliases +@vindex $* Aliases are commands that expand to a longer input line. For example, @command{ll} is a common alias for @code{ls -l}, and would be defined with the command invocation @kbd{alias ll 'ls -l $*'}; with this defined, @@ -438,6 +441,7 @@ automatically written to the file named by @code{eshell-aliases-file}, which you can also edit directly (although you will have to manually reload it). +@vindex $1, $2, @dots{} Note that unlike aliases in Bash, arguments must be handled explicitly. Typically the alias definition would end in @samp{$*} to pass all arguments along. More selective use of arguments via |