From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83iliiv0yv.fsf@gnu.org> <765547c0-b2a5-b054-a29d-b27002b7442c@gmail.com> <07bcf6a532d0428b9f53@heytings.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Jim Porter , Eli Zaretskii , arstoffel@gmail.com, 59956@debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 04:08:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p76Vs-00066T-Mb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:08:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p76VX-0008HF-IR; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p76VW-0008Gz-B5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p76VV-0000ok-W2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p76VV-0004j2-Kn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:08:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 59956 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 59956-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B59956.167141924318155 (code B ref 59956); Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 59956) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Dec 2022 03:07:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37416 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p76Us-0004il-Sk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:59366) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p76Uq-0004if-MI for 59956@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:21 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 43918100B14; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C1AF6100904; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:13 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1671419233; bh=RbetN+KqRAbZCgR7rR3A6QLBEX8IGbAXTuwj3MDHcsM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=IsR/U77KICBC1SLWnAFRK5POLBTf4V7YcfCQYh4zWLLuVdWx8hyqUBkQHlG2CLe8h 42o821N82OCNMImGtKopmhu4iuAfciLDvyPQwqfcXpxN1hdfHGUZuKOfmWS+kQ0RFE CpW9ABNFU39Kw86b2IUp99eVw16TSou9JXbbyPCxg3y9ukQokHCwGUYUfgaqMyUweo Qq6Y0YtLFhcbBuLOeWMCFMl1IRkjd0g3GMYeG7dCiygOdelElg3HjmzStJcTXqQKXg y0G8VEHgb+w7BODRvM4ZcPebXS32aKXgo8w2JOl/JmTltezeRKp1TdRZVqkTVtsVLP F7EB3UM8UOD9A== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.200.228]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AC09120F47; Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Gregory Heytings's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:19:32 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:251393 Archived-At: > Hmmm... So I guess it would be better, instead of replacing lists (and in > general non-strings) by their string representation, and instead of always > looking at an unexpanded argument, to look at the unexpanded argument only > when the expanded argument is not a string? E.g. if $foo is "-u" we would > use "-u", but if $foo is (b a r) we would use "$foo". Sounds like just another way to work around the problem. I think the only "real" fix is to change the API so the callers can say what kind of data they're looking for. The more I think about it, the more my workaround sounds appealing. My main remaining question is whether there exist code out there that relies on the current behavior. Stefan