Subject: 24.4; eshell/echo silently ignores -n argument

From: Phil Hagelberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:15:41 -0700

When using eshell, the `echo' built-in doesn't respect the -n argument,
which is supposed to suppress the trailing newline.

Sometimes this is not a problem because you can see for yourself that
eshell did the wrong thing, but if you are piping it directly to another
command, it's easy to miss.

The eshell/echo function should be changed to either accept the -n
argument and omit the newline, or it should complain that -n is not a
supported argument.

In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
 of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian
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