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eshell -- programmatically send input -- feature request

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Message #14 received at 25270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>, 25270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25270: eshell -- programmatically send input -- feature
 request
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 14:13:11 +0200

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

> Also, for the code posted in the original message, I'm not sure the
> changes to `eshell-parse-command' are needed. It should already let
> you pass a command string to it. Maybe this is because there's an
> issue with how `eshell-parse-command' temporarily inserts COMMAND into
> the buffer (see the FIXME comment in the code in the original
> message)? If there is, we'd probably have to think quite a bit more
> about how to resolve it.

Yes, if I understood correctly, that was the main problem -- inserting
things into the buffer to eval it sometimes leaves artefacts (or doesn't
work), so it'd be better to talk directly to the underlying shell to get
things evalled.

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