Subject: Re: bug#57129: 29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell

From: Jim Porter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:30:07 -0700

On 8/15/2022 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> From: Jim Porter <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:08:45 -0700
>>
>> I need to investigate this a bit further, since on GNU/Linux, I get a
>> new temp file every time.
> 
> Can you tell how you create these temporary files?  Or point me to the
> code which does that?

The temp files are created by Eshell in lisp/eshell/esh-var.el in the 
function 'eshell-parse-variable-ref', specifically in the part starting 
with:

   (eq (char-after) ?\<)