From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
Cc: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, 15231@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15231: 24.3.50; eshell: variable `name' treated different from other variables
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:50:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1u4uzlu8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2oezp9z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:39:33 -0400")
> I don't know the precise cause of the bug, but my crystal ball says that
> the Eshell code that interprets your command itself uses a variable
> named "name". There are probably a few other variables names used by
> Eshell that suffer from the same kind of "capture".
I've just tried to convert Eshell to use lexical-binding and it appears
that this problem would indeed be fixed by such a change (if someone has
some kind of test suite for Eshell it would be very helpful, since
changing it to use lexical-binding is not completely trivial and might
introduce unexpected regressions).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-12 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-31 23:40 bug#15231: 24.3.50; eshell: variable `name' treated different from other variables Gregor Zattler
2013-09-03 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1220.1378171698.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-12 1:58 ` Aidan Gauland
2013-09-12 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-12 4:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-09-12 6:56 ` Michael Albinus
2013-09-12 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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