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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: 54486-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54486: 29.0.50; Eshell `escaped' string property can "leak" into output
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:56:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c15483f1-875b-bd88-cd23-fa882e041dac@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4246ce24-e48e-4bdf-4918-412bf6c0e595@gmail.com>

On 3/20/2022 8:52 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> When using Eshell, it's possible to inadvertently add an `escaped' 
> string property to strings, resulting in some pretty surprising 
> behavior. Starting from "emacs -Q --eval '(eshell)'":
> 
>    ~ $ setq var (list "foo" "bar")
>    ("foo" "bar")
>    ~ $ echo $var
>    ("foo" "bar")
>    ~ $ echo $var[0]
>    foo
>    ~ $ echo $var
>    (#("foo" 0 3
>       (escaped t))
>     "bar")

In the intervening years, I've improved Eshell's parser to prevent other 
bugs, which has resulted in the 'escaped' string property no longer 
being useful.

Instead, Eshell now propertizes text that has actual syntactic meaning: 
for example a globbing character like "*" gets the 'eshell-glob-char' 
text property. By marking *syntactic* characters with a text property, 
we ensure that Eshell only ever adds properties to text literally 
written into the Eshell buffer, which avoids the issue here.

As a result of all this, we can now remove the calls that added that 
property in Eshell. I've now made this change in b4655ff99b5, so closing 
this bug.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-24  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-21  3:52 bug#54486: 29.0.50; Eshell `escaped' string property can "leak" into output Jim Porter
2022-03-21  4:04 ` Jim Porter
2022-03-21 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-21 19:24   ` Jim Porter
2022-03-21 20:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-24  6:56 ` Jim Porter [this message]

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