* eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command

by an alias.

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+2010-05-26  Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
+
+        * eshell.texi (Built-ins): Describe, how to disable a built-in command
+        by an alias.  (Bug#6226)
+
 2010-05-16  Jay Belanger  <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
 
         * calc.texi (Manipulating Vectors): Mention that vectors can
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 /bin/ls
 @end example
 
+If you want to discard a given built-in command, you could declare an
+alias, @ref{Aliases}.  Eample:
+
+@example
+~ $ which sudo
+eshell/sudo is a compiled Lisp function in `em-unix.el'
+~ $ alias sudo '*sudo $*'
+~ $ which sudo
+sudo is an alias, defined as "*sudo $*"
+@end example
+
 Some of the built-in commands have a special behaviour in Eshell:
 
 @table @code