GNU bug report logs - #12689
24.2; Eshell ${cmd} substitution

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Message #51 received at 12689 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12689 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Aidan Gauland <aidalgol <at> no8wireless.co.nz>
Subject: Re: bug#12689: 24.2; Eshell ${cmd} substitution
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 12:37:58 +0200

Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I think the "plain" echo behavior is what the original report
> expected, so maybe we can consider this fixed then. However, maybe we
> should consider whether the default, non-"plain" behavior should be
> changed. I don't have a strong opinion here, although I'm hesitant to
> make any big changes to the default behavior of Eshell's echo builtin,
> since I feel like it could break a lot of things really easily...

I think the behaviour after your patch seems reasonable (but I don't use
eshell regularly).

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