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authorMichael Albinus <[email protected]>2010-05-26 12:13:45 +0200
committerMichael Albinus <[email protected]>2010-05-26 12:13:45 +0200
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* eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command
by an alias.
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+2010-05-26 Michael Albinus <[email protected]>
+
+ * eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command
+ by an alias. (Bug#6226)
+
2010-05-16 Jay Belanger <[email protected]>
* calc.texi (Manipulating Vectors): Mention that vectors can
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/bin/ls
@end example
+If you want to discard a given built-in command, you could declare an
+alias, @ref{Aliases}. Eample:
+
+@example
+~ $ which sudo
+eshell/sudo is a compiled Lisp function in `em-unix.el'
+~ $ alias sudo '*sudo $*'
+~ $ which sudo
+sudo is an alias, defined as "*sudo $*"
+@end example
+
Some of the built-in commands have a special behaviour in Eshell:
@table @code