From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: 55838@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55838: 29.0.50; Eshell string-split subscript indexing splits too much
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 18:36:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa5d20e3-b9eb-35c0-51c7-a2cc103470ef@gmail.com> (raw)
From "emacs -Q -f eshell":
M-: (setq foo "a\nb:c")
~ $ echo $foo
a
b:c
~ $ echo $foo[: 0]
("a" "b")
The first command is normal, and just shows that Eshell outputs the
string with no manipulation. In the second command, we split the string
on ":" and get the 0th element. However, that gets split *again* (on
newlines) and returns a list.
I think this is overly aggressive. It's due to `eshell-apply-indices'
calling `eshell-convert' on the split element(s) of the string. However,
`eshell-convert' is primarily designed to turn output from external
command line programs into a Lispy form (so it splits by line to make a
list, among other things). This would normally happen when doing
something like this:
~ $ echo ${cat some-file.txt}
("line 1" "line 2" ...)
In the original case above, I think the split-subscript operator [: 0]
should only be doing the one thing the user requested: split on ":" and
get the 0th element.
Patch forthcoming momentarily. Just getting a bug number.
next reply other threads:[~2022-06-08 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-08 1:36 Jim Porter [this message]
2022-06-08 1:41 ` bug#55838: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Eshell string-split subscript indexing splits too much Jim Porter
2022-06-08 12:11 ` bug#55838: 29.0.50; " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-08 13:38 ` bug#55838: 29.0.50; [PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-08 23:06 ` Jim Porter
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