Re: New optional Eshell module: em-elecslash

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 09:19AM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> +To help with supplying absolute file name arguments to remote
>> +commands, you can add the @code{eshell-elecslash} module to
>> +@code{eshell-modules-list}.  Then, typing @kbd{/} as the first
>> +character of a command line argument will automatically insert the
>> +Tramp prefix @file{/method:host:}.  If this is not what you want
>> +(e.g.@: because you want to refer to a local file) you can type
>                                                      ^
> 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.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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