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From: | John Wiegley |
Subject: | bug#29157: 25.3; Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed" |
Date: | Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:21:01 -0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (darwin) |
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: EZ> Not just eshell/date: many Eshell built-ins behave like that, and they do EZ> that on purpose. eshell/date is an alias for `current-time-string'. The fact that this Lisp function accepts arguments, and those arguments can be passed on the Eshell command-line, isn't something I thought of at the time. In hindsight, a separate eshell/date function should have been created that would handle its arguments like the system command. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
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