Subject: Re: bug#15231: 24.3.50; eshell: variable `name' treated different from other variables
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Gregor Zattler <[email-masked]>, Aidan Gauland <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:16:24 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

>> I've just tried to convert Eshell to use lexical-binding and it appears
>> that this problem would indeed be fixed by such a change (if someone has
>> some kind of test suite for Eshell it would be very helpful, since
>> changing it to use lexical-binding is not completely trivial and might
>> introduce unexpected regressions).
> There is test/eshell.el. Btw, shouldn't it be moved to test/automated/ ?

Cool, indeed.  I moved the file, added a test to catch this bug, and
changed Eshell to use lexical-binding.

        Stefan