Subject: bug#29156: 25.3; eshell/kill does not understand -<signal>, [PATCH] Make eshell/kill handle -<signal> and -<SIGNALNAME>

From: Eric Skoglund <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:19:27 +0100

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> Saw that Eli also agreed, for future reference when do we want to use
>> `make-symbol` vs `intern`?
>
> Usually, `make-symbol' is only for macros, where you want a symbol that
> is not `eq' to any other.  Sometimes it's handy for making a unique
> object at run-time.  In this case, since we only care about the symbol
> name, it doesn't really matter, it's just a bit surprising to see it
> because it's usually a mistake in a non-macro context.

Thanks for the clarification!

PS. Not sure why I'm not seeing my replies in debbugs-gnu so sorry for the
extra work in forwarding them. Tried changing the To header to the bug
mail adress, let's se if that works.