From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
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 14:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lencst6g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01123db4-a3e1-9eac-b50b-174c239fbecd@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:36:13 -0800)
> 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.
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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 [this message]
2022-12-13 1:04 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-16 6:10 ` Jim Porter
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