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From: ch.emacs--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 46023@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46023: No error when a qualified eshell glob fails to match
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:03:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee608ac3-a1f0-2414-8b2b-06a589543d31@corinhoad.com> (raw)

With eshell-error-if-no-glob set to t, eshell will give en error when a 
glob fails to match, e.g. `ls *` in an empty directory. However, if a 
qualified glob fails to match, the behaviour is inconsistent, depending 
on whether the lack of matches is due to the glob or the qualifier. For 
example `ls *(@)` in an empty directory will error (* does not match), 
but `ls *(@)` in a directory with no symlinks will not ((@) does not match).

I have replicated this when running with `emacs -q`. To replicate:

- Start emacs
- (setq eshell-error-if-no-glob t)
- M-x eshell
- cd to or create and cd to an empty directory
- `ls *` will give "No matches found: *" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "No matches found: *" (as expected?)
- create an empty file, e.g. `touch foo`
- `ls *` will give "foo" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "foo" (but we only wanted symlinks!)
- create a symlink, e.g. `cp -s foo foo-link`
- `ls *` will give "foo foo-link" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "foo-link" (as expected)

This is not exclusive to the symlink predicate, equivalent examples can 
be devised for the others with the same behaviour. For what it's worth, 
zsh (on, from what I understand of the documentation, eshell's globbing 
behaviour is based) will fail to match on *(@) when there are no 
symlinks in the current directory.

Ideally, I believe eshell should copy zsh's behaviour should error if a 
qualifier causes a glob not to match.

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-21 18:03 UTC|newest]

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2021-01-21 18:03 ch.emacs--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-09-05 18:28 ` bug#46023: No error when a qualified eshell glob fails to match Jim Porter

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