tags 30724 + patch
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I found a way to get eshell to escape special chars.  It seems most of
the eshell builtin commands that take file arguments are already tagged
with the eshell-no-numeric-conversions property.  By adding the true
part of the if condition in eshell-lisp-command, it is possible to
quote the arguments of special filenames.  The attached patch checks
for "~" and "*".

;; for reference, here's the set of eshell builtins with the
;; eshell-no-numeric-conversions property
./esh-proc.el\0202:(put 'eshell/kill 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-dirs.el\0409:(put 'eshell/cd 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-dirs.el\0472:(put 'eshell/pushd 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-dirs.el\0502:(put 'eshell/popd 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./esh-ext.el\0261:(put 'eshell/addpath 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t
./esh-util.el\091:  (put \\='find-file \\='eshell-no-numeric-
./em-script.el\0127:(put 'eshell/source 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions
./em-script.el\0140:(put 'eshell/. 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0167:(put 'eshell/man 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0309:(put 'eshell/rm 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0326:(put 'eshell/mkdir 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0342:(put 'eshell/rmdir 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0526:(put 'eshell/mv 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0563:(put 'eshell/cp 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0595:(put 'eshell/ln 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0647:(put 'eshell/cat 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\0664:(put 'eshell/make 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\01031:(put 'eshell/diff 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-unix.el\01050:(put 'eshell/locate 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions 
./em-unix.el\01059:(put 'eshell/occur 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./esh-cmd.el\01185:(put 'eshell/which 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-ls.el\0336:(put 'eshell/ls 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-tramp.el\097:(put 'eshell/su 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)
./em-tramp.el\0139:(put 'eshell/sudo 'eshell-no-numeric-conversions t)

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Jonathan Kyle Mitchell