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bug#55838: 29.0.50; Eshell string-split subscript indexing splits too mu


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#55838: 29.0.50; Eshell string-split subscript indexing splits too much
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 18:36:09 -0700

From "emacs -Q -f eshell":

  M-: (setq foo "a\nb:c")

  ~ $ echo $foo
  a
  b:c
  ~ $ echo $foo[: 0]
  ("a" "b")

The first command is normal, and just shows that Eshell outputs the string with no manipulation. In the second command, we split the string on ":" and get the 0th element. However, that gets split *again* (on newlines) and returns a list.

I think this is overly aggressive. It's due to `eshell-apply-indices' calling `eshell-convert' on the split element(s) of the string. However, `eshell-convert' is primarily designed to turn output from external command line programs into a Lispy form (so it splits by line to make a list, among other things). This would normally happen when doing something like this:

  ~ $ echo ${cat some-file.txt}
  ("line 1" "line 2" ...)

In the original case above, I think the split-subscript operator [: 0] should only be doing the one thing the user requested: split on ":" and get the 0th element.

Patch forthcoming momentarily. Just getting a bug number.





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