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M-: history doesn't store erroneous input

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pogonyshev <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#39291: M-: history doesn't store erroneous input
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:16:09 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:35:33 +0200
> Cc: 39291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > M-: (oops-i-forgot-to-type-the-closing-paren RET
> > => End of file during parsing
> >
> > Error itself is fine, but the problem is if you now
> > type M-: again, you won't find your input in the
> > history and have to retype everything from scratch
> > instead of just fixing the typo.
> >
> > This is a regression in trunk compared at least to
> > 26.3.
> 
> This was changed by
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=9042ece787c
> via https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38317#23
> and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-12/msg00241.html

Federico, please look into fixing this regression.

TIA

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