From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 09:12:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Document that Eshell follows symlinks in history file names X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~4028 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2877471fefc21d157462d766afbcf3b2c47c4ee8;p=emacs.git 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 cad44f92338..f6a03aee22f 100644 --- 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. ** Shell