Subject: Re: bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining

From: Sean Whitton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:39:57 -0700

Hello,

On Wed 19 Jan 2022 at 09:34AM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sean Whitton <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:16:01 -0700
>>
>> >   >foo something or other
>> >
>> > in Eshell, and have the output of 'something' redirected to 'foo'?  If
>> > it is possible today, will it be possible after your changes, and what
>> > will happen with that if 'something' includes the new "*|" pipe
>> > symbol?
>>
>> Interestingly, it's not possible to do that with plain Eshell.  If
>> someone modifies Eshell's parsing to make it possible, I do not believe
>> it will interact with em-extpipe.el in any meaningful way.
>
> If it doesn't work now, then we cannot break it.

Okay, so I should add something to skip over my parsing code in the case
that the first thing in the input is a redirection?

-- 
Sean Whitton