GNU bug report logs - #59469
29.0.50; Eshell "for" loop: Calling a non-lisp command (example: /usr/bin/tail) sets the variable exported in the {} block of "for var in list {}" to nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Milan Zimmermann <milan.zimmermann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 02:06:02 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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Message #25 received at 59469-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Milan Zimmermann <milan.zimmermann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59469-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59469: 29.0.50; Eshell "for" loop: Calling a non-lisp command
 (example: /usr/bin/tail) sets the variable exported in the {} block
 of "for
 var in list {}" to nil (was: Adding a simpler duplication of the issue)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 21:44:15 -0800

On 1/28/2023 10:55 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Here's an updated patch with an improved comment introducing Eshell's 
> iterative evaluation. Hopefully the added detail will help anyone else 
> who looks into this code (assuming I haven't replaced it with threads or 
> generator.el's CPS machinery by then, of course!).

Merged as c53255f677. Closing this bug now.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 197 days ago.

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