Document that Eshell follows symlinks in history file names

* etc/NEWS: Mention that Eshell now follows symlinks in
history file names.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index cad44f92338d1460e78253ab5518077e72ff33e9..f6a03aee22f281618a9d0b8654ddb0311a9d1dfe 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -820,8 +820,15 @@ To restore the old behavior, use
 'eshell-uniqify-list'.
 
 *** The function 'eshell/kill' is now able to handle signal switches.
-Previously 'eshell/kill' would fail if provided a kill signal to send to the
-process.  It now accepts signals specified either by name or by its number.
+Previously 'eshell/kill' would fail if provided a kill signal to send
+to the process.  It now accepts signals specified either by name or by
+its number.
+
+---
+*** Emacs now follows symlinks in history-related files.
+The files specified by 'eshell-history-file-name' and
+'eshell-last-dir-ring-file-name' can include symlinks; these are now
+followed when Emacs writes the relevant history variables to the disk.
 
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