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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 59960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59960: 30.0.50; Eshell's $* variable (used to define aliases) doesn't work as expected
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:04:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ece3314-44ce-9ae9-4469-ebc6d1faf058@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lencst6g.fsf@gnu.org>

On 12/12/2022 4:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:36:13 -0800
>> Cc: 59960@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>>
>> On 12/11/2022 12:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> AFAICT, the fact that $* produces a sub-list is not mentioned in the
>>> documentation part of the patch.  I think it should, if only to
>>> explain why a special expansion is needed.
>>
>> Ok, I've expanded the documentation here to (hopefully) make things
>> clearer.
> 
> Thanks, I'm happy now.

Thanks. I'll leave this open for a bit in case anyone else has comments 
on the code (and I'll keep testing locally to see if there are any 
obvious bugs). If no one has any issues, I'll merge this in a few days.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-11  6:13 bug#59960: 30.0.50; Eshell's $* variable (used to define aliases) doesn't work as expected Jim Porter
2022-12-11  8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12  4:36   ` Jim Porter
2022-12-12  6:49     ` Jim Porter
2022-12-12 12:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-13  1:04       ` Jim Porter [this message]
2022-12-16  6:10         ` Jim Porter

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