bug#28320: Possible Eshell/Tramp Bug in Emacs 26

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Jay,

> It seems that the fix to
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27954 (commit
> e66e81679c3c91d6bf8f62c7abcd968430b4d1fe) caused this issue. I had an
> eshell alias defined as
>
> alias sudo eshell/sudo $*
>
> Which seems to no longer work (with the error described).

There's also bug#28320, which seems to report the same problem.

> Now, the entry:
>
> alias sudo eshell/sudo
>
> works for my purposes instead.
>
> This is a little bit annoying since it means that I can't share these
> aliases across emacs25 and emacs26 without problems. One solution I
> could do is setting `eshell-prefer-lisp-functions' instead of using this
> alias, but I would have liked to only override sudo (and leave the rest
> as system). If anyone knows a better solution, let me know!
>
> Also, it would be nice if eshell aliases and other configuration were
> not loaded in an emacs -Q setting.

Noam, could you have a look on this?

> -Jay

Best regards, Michael.