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29.0.50; em-extpipe breaks input of sharp-quoted Lisp symbols

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: 53518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#53518: 29.0.50; em-extpipe breaks input of sharp-quoted Lisp symbols
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:33:10 -0700

Hello Jim,

On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 06:39pm -08, Jim Porter wrote:

> I just noticed a small bit of breakage with this. It's no longer 
> possible to refer to Lisp functions in Eshell like so:
>
>    #'upcase
>
> Eshell explicitly supports this construct (see `eshell-lisp-regexp'), 
> though it doesn't appear to be documented in the manual. Currently, this 
> syntax is only occasionally useful, but I'm working on a patch series 
> where it'll likely become a lot more common. My patches will add support 
> for piping to Lisp functions, so that you can do the following, for example:
>
>    $ echo hi | #'upcase
>    HI
>
> It looks like the breakage in parsing #'upcase is the result of 
> `eshell-parse-external-pipeline' trying to skip over args like '*|' 
> (with the quotes). However, it sees the single-quote in #'upcase and 
> then calls `eshell-parse-literal-quote', resulting in the error message:
>
>    Expecting completion of delimiter ' ...

Thanks for the report.  I have a fix; incoming once I have a bug number.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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