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30.0.91; error calling eshell/clear with no argument

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com>, 73722 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73722: 30.0.91; error calling eshell/clear with no argument
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:00:40 -0700

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On 10/9/2024 10:33 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> 
> (same with or without emacs -Q)
> 1. M-x eshell
> 2. clear <return>
> 
> Gives error "wrong-type-argument listp progn".

I think this is probably the result of some improvements I've made to 
Eshell's command evaluator that revealed a latent bug in 'eshell/clear' 
(it actually runs a *second* Eshell command consisting only of newlines, 
which shouldn't be necessary).

The actual error reported here is fixed in Emacs 31; in Emacs 30, 
'eshell-do-eval' mis-evaluates an empty '(progn)', but that generally 
shouldn't occur except in odd cases like this. The "clear" command still 
doesn't *work* correctly in Emacs 31 though.

Attached is the smallest fix I could come up with for this. This is made 
somewhat more complex due to 'eshell/clear' also being used as an 
interactive Emacs-level command. The two forms ("clear" at an Eshell 
prompt and "M-x eshell/clear" in Emacs) should probably be separate 
functions entirely since they behave differently regarding the current 
prompt, but for the sake of compatibility, let's keep them fused 
together for now...

Eli, does this look ok for the release branch? It fixes a regression 
from Emacs 29 and adds a pair of regression tests to prevent future 
breakage. (If and when this merges, I'll see about a more-thorough fix 
for the master branch too.)

[0001-Fix-error-when-calling-clear-in-Eshell.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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