From: "George D. Plymale" <georgedp@orbitalimpact.com>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 26161@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26161: 25.1; `eshell-exit-success-p' determines that Lisp commands are successful if they return non-nil
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 19:46:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <801CBEDF-791F-4950-A8B1-F1EA346267BA@orbitalimpact.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7E4E5778-FFBF-4298-9DEF-0A60539999D5@orbitalimpact.com>
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> So maybe `eshell/cd' should be changed to return t when it succeeds?
That would only solve the problem for this particular command. It's worth
noting that even doing things like, e.g., `$ .. && pwd' or `$ cat ~/.emacs &&
pwd' don't execute their latter halves because the functions that the former
parts expand to return nil, even if they are in fact successful. Honestly,
it'd probably be better off if `eshell-exit-success-p' just
checked`eshell-last-command-status' and Eshell makes sure that erring commands
always set that to non-zero (which I think is already covered by
`eshell-trap-errors').
> AFAICT, when you cd to a non-existent directory it doesn't throw an
> error, but I don't think that should be considered success.
Yeah, `eshell/cd' actually is able to bypass something like
`eshell-trap-errors' because it uses `cd' under the hood through this
function invocation: `(eshell-printn result)' where `result' is `(cd
newdir)'. See, `eshell-printn' just captures the result of its given
object and prints that out. In some cases, that object is an error (like
when you cd into a non-existent directory), but you can't really tell
that because `eshell-printn' doesn't care about errors; it just prints
out the object it's given. Functions that do this sort of thing may also
exist aside from `eshell/cd', so I'm unsure what can be done about that.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-18 19:12 bug#26161: 25.1; `eshell-exit-success-p' determines that Lisp commands are successful if they return non-nil George D. Plymale
2017-03-31 3:52 ` npostavs
2017-04-01 23:46 ` George D. Plymale [this message]
2017-04-02 0:06 ` npostavs
2017-04-11 19:48 ` George D. Plymale
2017-04-13 1:18 ` npostavs
2017-04-20 19:47 ` George Plymale II
2017-04-21 3:10 ` npostavs
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