# HG changeset patch
# User John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
# Date 989465415 0
# Node ID 7dc0e015c205b259b9d3f1ea08876548ccd0c982
# Parent  f9277090a94a475e97168939f24ec9c24af59407
(eshell-number-regexp): Now that number conversions only happen for
Lisp function calls, the number regexp should now match all integer
and floating point forms.

diff -r f9277090a94a -r 7dc0e015c205 lisp/eshell/esh-util.el
--- a/lisp/eshell/esh-util.el	Thu May 10 03:29:55 2001 +0000
+++ b/lisp/eshell/esh-util.el	Thu May 10 03:30:15 2001 +0000
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'eshell-util)
 
-(defcustom eshell-number-regexp "\\(0\\|-?[1-9][0-9]*\\(\\.[0-9]+\\)?\\)"
+(defcustom eshell-number-regexp "-?\\([0-9]*\\.\\)?[0-9]+\\(e[-0-9.]+\\)?"
   "*Regular expression used to match numeric arguments.
 If `eshell-convert-numeric-arguments' is non-nil, and an argument
 matches this regexp, it will be converted to a Lisp number, using the