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25.1; 'M-x eshell-source-file' fails

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Chunyang Xu <mail <at> xuchunyang.me>
Cc: 26057 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26057: 25.1; 'M-x eshell-source-file' fails
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:15:24 +0200

Chunyang Xu <mail <at> xuchunyang.me> writes:

> After I open Eshell, the eshell-source-file is available as an
> interactive command and in (info "(eshell) Scripts") it says
>
>   Scripts are invoked from Eshell with ‘source’, or from anywhere in Emacs
>   with ‘eshell-source-file’.
>
> so it looks like to me I can run
>
>   M-x eshell-source-file RET /tmp/foo.esh RET

[...]

> it fails by showing the following in the echo area
>
>   eshell-source-file: No catch for tag: eshell-replace-command, (let

[...]

> I don't really sure about the purpose of making eshell-source-file
> interactive, maybe it is a bug?

It looks like the interactive spec has always been there (at least since
2000), but that function can't possibly work as an interactive command.
So, as you say, I think it's a bug, and I've now removed the interactive
spec from the function on the Emacs trunk.

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