GNU bug report logs - #47991
28.0.50; inconsistency between async-shell-command and shell-command

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Message #17 received at 47991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: condy0919 <at> gmail.com, 47991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47991: 28.0.50; inconsistency between async-shell-command
 and shell-command
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:41:53 -0400

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  > > I'm curious about the reason why it's a feature. Why the synchronous
  > > `shell-command' should be in `fundamental-mode' while the async doesn't.

  > I don't know, it's been that way since 1995.  Maybe Richard remembers.

This decision seems correct to me.

The code of Shell mode is mainly meant for (1) handling the output as
it arrives asynchronously and (2) editing shell input.

In M-!, there is no need for either of those things.

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