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29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, christopher <at> librehacker.com,
 71554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71554: 29.3; eshell-command async buffer behavior
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:46:29 +0300

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>,  thievol <at> posteo.net,
>   71554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  christopher <at> librehacker.com
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:09:43 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:36:47 -0700
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 71554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> >>  christopher <at> librehacker.com
> >> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> Eli, what do you think about merging this into the Emacs 30 branch? I 
> >> have no strong preference myself, but I think it's small enough that it 
> >> should be safe, and it fixes an annoyance with Eshell today. (I can also 
> >> write a regression test or two if that would help matters.)
> >
> > Why do we have to make this change in Emacs 30?  AFAIU, it isn't a
> > bug, just inconsistency between shell-mode and Eshell, and we have
> > lived with it for quite some time.  Right?
> 
> We have lived with this because the eshell-command async behavior was
> broken from 2005 to 2021. Now it is repaired the need of beeing able to
> run several processes raise.
> 
> > I'd like to have as short a pretest for Emacs 30.1 as possible, and
> > that means no changes we don't absolutely have to make.  Please
> > consider the necessity of this change from that POV.
> 
> Now we have a emacs-31 branch, perhaps this can be installed there?

There's no emacs-31, only emacs-30 and master.  The master branch will
eventually become Emacs 31, so if you mean to install there, I'm okay
with that, of course.

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