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28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining

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Message #58 received at 46351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 46351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own
 pipelining
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 12:54:39 -0700

Hello Michael,

On Mon 27 Dec 2021 at 08:37PM +01, Michael Albinus wrote:

> If you want this complexity (external and internal pipelins and
> stdin/stout redirection) in one command line, you must mark every single
> such operator with an asterisk, which might be inconvenient. But you
> have the eshell history, which gives you the command line including the
> external asterisks, which let you edit the command prior reexecution.
>
> Personally, I could live with both approaches. Your proposal with a
> leading "||" is similar to my "one rules them all", because it changes
> the meaning of all pipelines etc in a command line to be external.

Right.  I was thinking that the piecemeal approach was one of the
advantages of your idea.

I'll see if I can implement this more complex thing and get back to you.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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