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[PATCH] Display the exit code if the last command failed in Eshell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Davide Masserut <dm <at> mssdvd.com>
Cc: 65604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, me <at> eshelyaron.com
Subject: bug#65604: [PATCH] Display the exit code if the last command failed in Eshell
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:25:34 +0300

> From: Davide Masserut <dm <at> mssdvd.com>
> Cc: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>, 65604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  jporterbugs <at> gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:02:00 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why do you meed :eval at all?  AFAIR, having a symbol in the 
> > mode line
> > automatically uses its current value when the mode line is 
> > redrawn.
> 
> Wouldn't this strip the symbol of its text properties?

Sorry, I don't understand: what symbol and why do we care about its
text properties?

What I meant is that reference to a symbol in mode-line-format
automatically uses the value of that symbol, unless I'm confused or
misremembering.

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