From: Michael Albinus Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:20:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Adapt Eshell manual X-Git-Tag: emacs-29.1.90~174 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=31d3808fb9d;p=emacs.git Adapt Eshell manual * doc/misc/eshell.texi (Arguments): Mention more special characters to be quoted in remote file names. (Bug#65431) --- diff --git a/doc/misc/eshell.texi b/doc/misc/eshell.texi index c9d84cf2851..3c2b4bd3a7c 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eshell.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eshell.texi @@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ As with other shells, you can escape special characters and spaces by prefixing the character with a backslash (@samp{\}), or by surrounding the string with apostrophes (@samp{''}) or double quotes (@samp{""}). This is needed especially for file names with special characters like -pipe (@samp{|}), which could be part of remote file names. +pipe (@samp{|}) or square brackets (@samp{[} or @samp{]}), which could +be part of remote file names. When you escape a character with @samp{\} outside of any quotes, the result is the literal character immediately following it. For