From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 59622@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59622: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 09:57:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335dd36-a50b-e03b-670b-58b1e08cc979@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8mn49sj.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12/7/2022 5:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 20:18:30 -0800
>> Cc: 59622@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>>
>> I also split the patch in two: the first patch for the 29 branch (which
>> makes the least code changes I could manage), and the second as an
>> additional small cleanup patch for master only.
>
> Since which Emacs version do we have this regression? If it's a very
> old regression, I'd prefer not to fix it on the emacs-29 branch.
This worked properly in Emacs 28 and is broken in 29. I'm not 100% sure
which patch regressed it, but my guess is patch 0003 in bug#54227, which
was merged in March.
>> @subsection Quoting and escaping
>> As with other shells, you can escape special characters and spaces
>> -with by prefixing the character with a backslash (@code{\}), or by
>> -surrounding the string with apostrophes (@code{''}) or double quotes
>> -(@code{""}). This is needed especially for file names with special
>> -characters like pipe (@code{|}), which could be part of remote file
>> +with by prefixing the character with a backslash (@samp{\}), or by
>
> "with by prefixing" is a typo; probably "with" should be dropped.
Good catch! I missed that despite reading it a few times while editing
the manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-07 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-27 0:36 bug#59622: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Regression in Eshell's handling of escaped newlines Jim Porter
2022-11-27 0:42 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-04 1:41 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-04 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-05 1:35 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-05 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-07 4:18 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-07 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-07 17:57 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2022-12-07 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-08 5:47 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-09 0:59 ` Jim Porter
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