From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#699: grep in eshell incorrect
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:24:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1w0tha1m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k5em3s28.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:18:55 -0500
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:54:29 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> Cc: 699@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
> >> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >> From: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:40:25 -0700
> >>
> >> So, possibly the eshell's "ls" command forming multiple columns is a
> >> bad design. Because after all it is supposed to emulate the unix
> >> shell behavior and "ls | grep xyz" is common idiom.
>
> EZ> Yes, it _is_ supposed to emulate a Unix shell. But I just tried that
> EZ> same pipe both on GNU/Linux and on MS-Windows, and in both cases "ls"
> EZ> still forms multiple columns even in a pipe. So I don't see anything
> EZ> wrong with how Eshell's "ls" works.
>
> My tests show different results.
Yes, you are right: I forgot that my `ls' is aliased to "ls -x".
Under -x, the pipe doesn't imply -1.
Sorry for the confusion.
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2008-08-12 7:01 ` bug#699: grep in eshell incorrect xah lee
2008-08-12 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-12 18:40 ` xah lee
2008-08-12 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-12 19:03 ` xah lee
2008-08-12 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-12 19:26 ` xah lee
2008-08-12 19:59 ` Glenn Morris
2008-08-12 20:10 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-08-13 2:42 ` Glenn Morris
2008-08-13 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-13 3:21 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] ` <mailman.16486.1218568069.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-12 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-13 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-15 19:25 ` bug#699: marked as done (grep in eshell incorrect) Emacs bug Tracking System
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