GNU bug report logs - #55590
29.0.50; Eshell subcommands clobber pipelines and produce incorrect output

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 03:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>, 55590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55590: [PATCH] 29.0.50; Eshell subcommands clobber pipelines and produce incorrect output
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 22:39:18 -0700

Hello Jim,

On Sun 22 May 2022 at 08:43pm -07, Jim Porter wrote:

> On 5/22/2022 8:34 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
>> Starting from `emacs -Q -f eshell', enter the following command:
>>
>>    echo ${*echo hi} | rev
>>
>> The output is:
>>
>>    ~ $ ih
>>
>> That is, the output of the command ended up *after* the prompt, when it
>> should be before.
>
> The attached patch fixes this issue. It might not be the *best* way to
> do it, but it's the least-invasive I could come up with. The
> `make-symbol' dance is a bit awkward, but Eshell already uses it for
> `eshell-command-to-value' / `eshell-do-command-to-value', so hopefully
> it's ok.

Couldn't you just defvar a couple of vars for this purpose?

-- 
Sean Whitton
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