GNU bug report logs - #59622
29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59622: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:35:30 -0800

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On 12/3/2022 11:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 17:41:50 -0800
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
>>
>> Eli, since this is a regression from Emacs 28 (likely fallout from one
>> of my changes to fix some longstanding bugs with quotes in Eshell),
>> would my current patch be ok on the release branch?
> 
> Yes, but please do try to make it as safe as is feasible.

Thanks. How does this look? I just simplified the change in 
'eshell-parse-backslash' so that the only difference is an extra 
conditional (plus whitespace changes).
[0001-Treat-escaped-newlines-in-Eshell-as-the-empty-string.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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