From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29157: 25.3; Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed" Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:32:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83375075ww.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tvy9rm5z.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgjk7rpd.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87lgjkoloe.fsf@gmail.com> <87shd5znzf.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87po891o1t.fsf@gmail.com> <87po89ywv5.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <8360a1arlf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgiui6qc.fsf@gmail.com> <83y3mu6ttn.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9np6om8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511753651 22362 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2017 03:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29157@debbugs.gnu.org, ambrevar@gmail.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 27 04:34:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABI-0005Dj-LZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:34:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABO-0005CS-4X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:34:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57170) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABI-0005BH-Ri for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABG-00088j-Mo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABG-00088d-Iq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJABG-00028s-95 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:34:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:34:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29157 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29157-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29157.15117535898165 (code B ref 29157); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:34:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29157) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Nov 2017 03:33:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59876 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJAAP-00027c-J7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37638) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJAAO-00027R-O3 for 29157@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJAAG-0007wZ-BS for 29157@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJA9z-0007sb-IY; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:32:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1822 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eJA9y-00070l-TM; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:32:43 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:45:30 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140439 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: ambrevar@gmail.com, 29157@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:45:30 -0800 > > >> In hindsight, a separate eshell/date function should have been created that > >> would handle its arguments like the system command. > > > There is such a function: *date. > > I mean, an implementation that works when no system "date" command exists, yet > accepts arguments similar to what system date accepts. If someone wants to work on Eshell's 'date' so that it accepts more complicated arguments that the Coreutils version does, they should feel free, of course.