Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50;

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:52:05 +0200

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:51:29 -0800
> From: Samer Masterson <[email-masked]>
> 
> Changes from master to working tree
> 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> etc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
> etc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
> lisp/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
> lisp/eshell/esh-arg.el | 31 +++++++++----------------------
> 
> Modified etc/ChangeLog
> diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
> index 309c01f..3e76256 100644
> --- a/etc/ChangeLog
> +++ b/etc/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
> +2014-12-08 Samer Masterson <samer <at> dark-horse>
> +
> + * NEWS: Mention change in backslash expand behavior for eshell.
> +
> 2014-12-08 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> 
> * NEWS: Mention the new eww `S' command.
> Modified etc/NEWS
> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index 56036f8..e6d9aab 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ result of the calculation into the current buffer.
> *** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode
> *** eldoc-documentation-function now defaults to nil
> 
> +** eshell
> +
> +*** Backslash (\) expands to the character literal after it if that
> +character is non-special (e.g. 'b\in' expands to 'bin', because 'i' is
> +not a special character). This behavior conforms with bash.

Thanks.

First, please leave 2 blanks between sentences (we use the US English
conventions for that).

More importantly, this patch doesn't really fix the original bug, does
it?  Apologies if I missed something.