GNU bug report logs - #57129
29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57129: 29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:14:07 +0300

> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:03:27 -0700
> 
> In addition to the changes to temporary file name generation, I think it 
> would be useful for Eshell to kill the temporary buffer too. If you use 
> this feature in Eshell a lot, the temporary buffers could pile up, 
> consuming memory for no real benefit. (A user who wanted the buffer to 
> stick around would probably redirect to a non-temporary file, or even 
> just to a buffer.) Attached is a patch to do this.

That makes sense, of course, but why not use with-temp-buffer in the
first place?

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