From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: <andpuke@foxmail.com>
Cc: 36219@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36219: GNU Emacs 26.1 --eval rejects trailing whitespace
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:33:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftobynvt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_91A99E388C179D45ABA5BF4CB78B6E24C707@qq.com> (andpuke@foxmail.com's message of "Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:39:10 +0800")
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severity 36219 minor
tags 36219 + patch
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<andpuke@foxmail.com> writes:
> Since commit a90d5e6309c0306d931d398506b242c3eb4f40d7 which fixes bug #23159
> the `--eval' command line option signals (error "Trailing garbage following
> expression: %s") on more than one expression recevied.
> This causes some old shell script snippets which has trailing newline for
> formatting no longer works, such as the follow script from
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Batch-Execution.html#Batch-Execution
> Since `eval-expression' accepts additional white space and newlines after a
> single expression, this mismatch behavior of `--eval' should be considered as a
> bug.
>
> My proposed fix is apply `string-trim-right` to received string of expression.
>
I think I'd prefer checking the trailing garbage for whitespace, which
is what eval-expression does. See following patch:
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From c067e710eb7d6e1606f0cdd76e37fe84104d33d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:40:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow trailing whitespace in --eval argument (Bug#36219)
* lisp/startup.el (command-line-1): Don't complain about trailing
garbage if it's only space, tab, or newline characters.
---
lisp/startup.el | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 32051c232c..f5463f2c93 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -2376,7 +2376,9 @@ (defun command-line-1 (args-left)
(read-data (read-from-string str-expr))
(expr (car read-data))
(end (cdr read-data)))
- (unless (= end (length str-expr))
+ ;; Allow same trailing chars as minibuf.c's
+ ;; `string_to_object'.
+ (unless (string-match-p "[\s\t\n]*\\'" str-expr end)
(error "Trailing garbage following expression: %s"
(substring str-expr end)))
(eval expr)))
--
2.11.0
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This is a regression from Emacs 25, and the fix looks pretty safe to me;
although the bug isn't especially severe. Should it go to emacs-26?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-15 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-15 2:39 bug#36219: GNU Emacs 26.1 --eval rejects trailing whitespace �o�ӡ����Yһ��
2019-06-15 13:33 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-06-15 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-15 14:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-15 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-15 21:46 ` Noam Postavsky
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