Re: amd@gnu.org: eshell and external commands

[John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> This code would need to prevent the eshell prompt from being emitted until
> the external process is complete, like how the 'eshell-defer mechanism works
> in eshell-resume-eval for "normal" external commands.  However, I don't know
> eshell well enough to make this work.  I tried adding the return value of
> eshell-external-command to eshell-last-async-proc but that doesn't work for
> some reason.  Do you know what needs to be done to make it work?

Ok, I have to give this some serious thought, which I cannot do just now
because I'm about to move to Grenada.  After a week or so has gone by and I've
settled in, then I can focus enough to find the right answer.

John