changeset 108794:0aab456fe7bd

* eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command by an alias.
author Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
date Wed, 26 May 2010 12:10:05 +0200
parents d38bcb4008ab
children 3b30e312882a
files doc/misc/ChangeLog doc/misc/eshell.texi
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+2010-05-26  Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
+
+	* eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command
+	by an alias.
+
 2010-05-16  Jay Belanger  <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
 
 	* calc.texi (Manipulating Vectors): Mention that vectors can
--- a/doc/misc/eshell.texi	Tue May 25 23:48:25 2010 -0700
+++ b/doc/misc/eshell.texi	Wed May 26 12:10:05 2010 +0200
@@ -369,6 +369,17 @@
 /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