Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sat 16 Apr 2022 at 11:24pm -07, Jim Porter wrote:

> On 4/16/2022 11:57 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Here is my new module, which I'd like to install on master.
>
> Cool, this looks like it should be really helpful for making Lisp
> commands and external commands more consistent. This seems similar to an
> entry in Eshell's "Bug and Ideas" section in the manual too:
>
>    @item Make @kbd{/} electric
>
>    So that it automatically expands and corrects pathnames.  Or make
>    pathname completion for Pcomplete auto-expand @samp{/u/i/std@key{TAB}} to
>    @samp{/usr/include/std@key{TAB}}.
>
> The entry is pretty brief, so I'm not sure exactly how it would be
> expected to work in all cases, but it might be some food for thought. If
> nothing else, it'd probably be worth removing (or updating?) that entry.

Thanks, I didn't see this section.

I think that's actually referring to something else -- just general
pathname completion, expansion and correction, not TRAMP prefixes.  I'll
edit it appropriately though.

-- 
Sean Whitton