GNU bug report logs - #29157
25.3; Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 29157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "John Wiegley" <johnw <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ambrevar <at> gmail.com,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: bug#29157: 25.3;
 Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed"
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:21:49 -0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

EZ> That's one way of looking at Eshell, although it's not my way. Eshell was
EZ> intended to be used from Lisp programs, and that's why its built-ins
EZ> accept Lisp objects, values, and expressions as arguments.

Eshell was intended to be a UNIX-like environment on non-UNIX systems, and as
a bonus to provide useful interactions with Lisp. It wasn't built first as a
Lisp interaction mode.

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