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Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:15:07 +0300 |
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:14:04 -0700
>
> > A comma is missing there.
>
> Thanks. This is an American English thing I find it hard to remember.
>
> >> -@item Make @kbd{/} electric
> >> +@item Make @kbd{/} more electric
> >>
> >> -So that it automatically expands and corrects pathnames. Or make
> >> -pathname completion for Pcomplete auto-expand @samp{/u/i/std@key{TAB}} to
> >> +So that it automatically expands and corrects pathnames, beyond what
> >> +the @code{em-elecslash} module is able to do. Or make pathname
> >> +completion for Pcomplete auto-expand @samp{/u/i/std@key{TAB}} to
> >
> > This last paragraph needs a @noindent and should start with a
> > lower-case letter, because it is a continuation of the previous
> > sentence. Also, it uses "pathname(s)" where it should use "file
> > name(s)".
>
> I was thinking that I would touch that paragraph only to the extent I
> had to to update it, but why not fix those things, indeed.
>
> >> +*** New module to help supplying absolute file names to remote commands.
> >> +After enabling the new module, typing a forward slash as the first
> >> +character of a command line argument will automatically insert the
> >> +Tramp prefix. The automatic insertion applies only when
> >> +'default-directory' is remote and the command is a Lisp function.
> >> +This frees you from having to keep track of whether commands are Lisp
> >> +function or external when supplying absolute file name arguments. See
> >> +"Electric forward slash" in the Eshell manual.
> >
> > This NEWS entry should name the module, I think.
>
> Good point.
Thanks, the patch LGTM.
- New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/16
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/16
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/16
- RE: [External] : Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Drew Adams, 2022/04/16
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/17
- RE: [External] : Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Drew Adams, 2022/04/17
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/19
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/19
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/20
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/20
- Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/16
Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Stefan Monnier, 2022/04/16
Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash, Jim Porter, 2022/04/17