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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 54190@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#54190: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Incorrect/missing documentation for some Eshell "$" syntaxes
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 10:04:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <984b22e5-08fe-bb00-2039-936c9046c0ad@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1qzhrgdg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On 3/4/2022 5:35 AM, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> This looks like a workaround rather than a fix.
> eshell-do-eval supposedly handles code that uses macros.  `lambda` is
> just one such macro (and a very simple one at that), so if the `lambda`
> macro is not properly handled, then most likely there are other macros
> which are similarly mishandled.

Agreed. This is just intended as a slightly cleaner workaround than the 
previous one, but it's not a true fix. I think a real fix would be 
significantly more complex (e.g. using generator.el), and that might be 
better to track in a separate bug.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-04 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-27 21:34 bug#54190: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Incorrect/missing documentation for some Eshell "$" syntaxes Jim Porter
2022-02-28  6:11 ` Jim Porter
2022-02-28  8:16   ` Jim Porter
2022-02-28  9:38     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-28 13:18       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-28 13:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-28 17:47         ` Jim Porter
2022-03-01 13:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-04  5:55             ` Jim Porter
2022-03-04  7:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-04 13:35               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-04 18:04                 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2022-09-06 11:28               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-07  3:50                 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-07  3:59                   ` Jim Porter

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