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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-07-12 20:00:16 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-07-12 20:00:16 +0300
commitfe50d914a95e78687e3341b526f19a71de583963 (patch)
treeb6365abc5296079d23e9d6ad4605ad6ca16078b7
parent5f0ef3c9d8b564d277bd78e05b688994658a4073 (diff)
downloademacs-fe50d914a95e78687e3341b526f19a71de583963.tar.gz
; * lisp/dirtrack.el: Restore important information in commentary.
-rw-r--r--lisp/dirtrack.el22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dirtrack.el b/lisp/dirtrack.el
index 080c02294e9..4f092f95e06 100644
--- a/lisp/dirtrack.el
+++ b/lisp/dirtrack.el
@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@
;; Shell directory tracking by watching the prompt.
;;
;; This is yet another attempt at a directory-tracking package for
-;; Emacs shell-mode. However, this package makes one strong assumption:
-;; that you can customize your shell's prompt to contain the
-;; current working directory. Most shells do support this, including
-;; almost every type of Bourne and C shell on Unix, the native shells on
-;; Windows, and most 3rd party Windows shells. If you cannot do this, or
-;; do not wish to, this package will be useless to you.
+;; Emacs shell-mode. However, this package makes one strong
+;; assumption: that you can customize your shell's prompt to contain
+;; the current working directory. Most shells do support this,
+;; including almost every type of Bourne and C shell on Unix, the
+;; native shells on Windows 9X (COMMAND.COM) and modern MS-Windows
+;; systems (cmd.exe), and most 3rd party MS-Windows shells. If you
+;; cannot do this, or do not wish to, this package will be useless to
+;; you.
;;
;; Installation:
;;
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@
;;
;; Examples:
;;
-;; 1) On Windows NT, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G.
+;; 1) On MS-Windows, my prompt is set to emacs$S$P$G.
;; 'dirtrack-list' is set to (list "^emacs \\([a-zA-Z]:.*\\)>" 1)
;;
;; 2) On Solaris running bash, my prompt is set like this:
@@ -99,9 +101,9 @@
;; with a ~ in it).
;;
;; The same behavior can occur if you use dirtrack with remote filesystems
-;; (using telnet, etc.) as Emacs will be checking the local filesystem, not
-;; the remote one. This problem is not specific to dirtrack, but also
-;; affects file completion, etc.
+;; (using telnet, ssh, etc.) as Emacs will be checking the local
+;; filesystem, not the remote one. This problem is not specific to dirtrack,
+;; but also affects file completion, etc.
;;; Code: