From: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
To: Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net>,
Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eshell command substitution?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:19:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le9bun9f.fsf@stebalien.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il4oyk2h.fsf@jeffclough.net>
Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> writes:
> Progress! Running that command, I get the proper output from pkg-config,
> but it's wrapped in single quotes, which the compiler doesn't like.
>
> Playing with the options on the page you linked doesn't seem to help.
The issue is that eshell splits on lines [1], not words. A workaround is to
append `(:S)` [2]:
$ g++ base.cpp -o base ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}(:S)
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/Dollars-Expansion.html
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/Argument-Modifiers.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-31 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-23 15:39 eshell command substitution? Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 15:58 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-23 16:12 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:29 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-23 16:34 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:30 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:46 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-31 2:19 ` Steven Allen [this message]
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