GNU bug report logs - #43772
27.1; (describe-variable) breaks eshell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: daniel <at> codesections.com

Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 02:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Found in version 27.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: daniel <at> codesections.com
Cc: 43772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43772: 27.1; (describe-variable) breaks eshell
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:43:35 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> There was no dribble file attached, but I was able to reproduce the bug
> in Emacs 28, too.

A simpler way to reproduce the bug is to say

(require 'em-tramp)

This is because that file defines eshell/su, and when that's defined,
the command is passed onto the shell directly without any parsing (and
therefore no prompting).

The logic is in

(defun eshell-invoke-directly (command)
...
	 (fboundp (intern-soft (concat "eshell/" name))))))

I'm not an eshell user, so I'm not sure what's up with that?

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