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28.0.50; Eshell: support setting working buffer like IELM

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: 42612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42612: 28.0.50; Eshell: support setting working buffer like IELM
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:06:36 +0300

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
> Cc: 42612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:49:15 -0700
> 
> In IELM you can type C-c C-b and select a buffer, and then when you eval
> further sexps in *ielm*, it will be as if you used M-: with that other
> buffer selected.  Useful for debugging a major or minor mode.
> 
> In Eshell the closest thing you can do is wrap your sexps in a
> (with-current-buffer) form, or use (progn (set-buffer ...) ...), which
> is less convenient.

Eshell is a shell.  What is the semantics of running a shell in a
buffer?  The only semantics I can think of is to run the shell in the
default-directory of that buffer.

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