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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-09-19 18:57:37 -0400
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-09-19 18:57:37 -0400
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Document synchronous behavior of eshell/make (Bug#32513)
* doc/misc/eshell.texi (Built-ins): * lisp/eshell/em-unix.el (eshell/make): Mention that it falls back to the external 'make' command when called synchronously.
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@@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ Alias to Emacs's @code{locate} function, which simply runs the external
@item make
@cmindex make
-Run @command{make} through @code{compile}.
-@xref{Compilation, , , emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.
+Run @command{make} through @code{compile} when run asynchronously
+(e.g., @samp{make &}). @xref{Compilation, , , emacs, The GNU Emacs
+Manual}. Otherwise call the external @command{make} command.
@item occur
@cmindex occur