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#54486
29.0.50; Eshell `escaped' string property can "leak" into output
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Reported by: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:53:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.0.50
Done: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:52:43 -0700
>
> When using Eshell, it's possible to inadvertently add an `escaped'
> string property to strings, resulting in some pretty surprising
> behavior. Starting from "emacs -Q --eval '(eshell)'":
>
> ~ $ setq var (list "foo" "bar")
> ("foo" "bar")
> ~ $ echo $var
> ("foo" "bar")
> ~ $ echo $var[0]
> foo
> ~ $ echo $var
> (#("foo" 0 3
> (escaped t))
> "bar")
>
> This happens because when the `$var[0]' argument is parsed in the third
> command, the function `eshell-interpolate-variable' wraps the
> code-to-be-called with `eshell-escape-arg'. That function adds an
> `escaped' property to any string passed into it.
>
> The `escaped' property is used to indicate that the string should be
> treated literally (i.e. any special characters like "$" will no longer
> have any special meaning in Eshell). That's the right *behavior*, but
> ideally, there'd be a way to do so that doesn't involve manipulating the
> string like this. Eshell can't know the lifetime of the string, and it
> seems like a bad idea in general to go around messing with string
> properties just because you referenced that string somehow in Eshell.
>
> I can't think of an obvious fix for this though. Any ideas?
Why exactly do you think this should be fixed? I don't think I
understand that from your description. We have many features that add
text properties to strings, so why is this one different? About the
only thing I can think of is to add this property to the default value
of yank-excluded-properties, but that's all.
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