Re: Is emacsclient --eval broken?

["Johan Bockgård" <bojohan@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> There must be something that the client cannot interpret, or maybe we
> are not prepared to deal with strings that span more than one packet
> returned by recv?

The function in server.el that splits the reply has a bug:


diff --git a/lisp/server.el b/lisp/server.el
index 59fd973..650323d 100644
--- a/lisp/server.el
+++ b/lisp/server.el
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ (defun server-reply-print (qtext proc)
       ;; We have to split the string
       (setq part (substring qtext 0 (- server-msg-size (length prefix) 1)))
       ;; Don't split in the middle of a quote sequence
-      (if (string-match "\\(^\\|[^&]\\)\\(&&\\)+$" part)
+      (if (string-match "\\(^\\|[^&]\\)&\\(&&\\)*$" part)
 	  ;; There is an uneven number of & at the end
 	  (setq part (substring part 0 -1)))
       (setq qtext (substring qtext (length part)))