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authorEric Skoglund <eric@pagefault.se>2018-03-16 14:49:56 +0100
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-03-25 11:20:20 -0400
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Make eshell/kill handle -<signal> and -<SIGNALNAME> (Bug#29156)
* lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el (eshell/kill): Handle the argument parsing and numeric conversion in function in order to parse -signal and -SIGNALNAME correctly. * doc/misc/eshell.texi (kill): Update docs to reflect new function behaviour. * etc/NEWS: Mention new eshell/kill behaviour.
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@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ List subprocesses of the Emacs process, if any, using the function
@item kill
@cmindex kill
Kill processes. Takes a PID or a process object and an optional
-signal specifier.
+signal specifier which can either be a number or a signal name.
@item listify
@cmindex listify