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

Previous Next

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.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ambrevar <at> gmail.com, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#29157: 25.3; Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed"
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:44:42 -0800

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

EZ> Well, maybe historically I'm wrong, but factually I'm right: what we have
EZ> now is a shell that can act on Lisp objects and Lisp expressions, and this
EZ> fact is even documented in the manual. I personally find this feature
EZ> useful and a lot of fun, and I think it would be a pity to lose it.

Sure, very much agreed, it was an unintended result but a welcome one. :)

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 159 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.