Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:

> Anyways, that might ring an alarm here: maybe eshell/date should not
> exist.  What's the point of having it?  I'm not sure.  It is obviously
> less powerful than the system `date'.

Eshell has lots of commands like that.  I guess it makes it more portable?

> That does it for me.  I did not even know this feature existed.  I'd it
> proves more useful in an environment with poor selection / editing
> capabilities, i.e. a terminal shell.  Emacs does not need that when you
> can fuzzy-search your history and modify your prompt with arbitrary
> bindings / Lisp code.

I agree.  Although the expansion in this case is arguably a bug (as
Andreas pointed out), I don't have much interest in fixing it.  I
propose just to disable it by default (in master).