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No error when a qualified eshell glob fails to match |
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Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:03:43 +0000 |
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With eshell-error-if-no-glob set to t, eshell will give en error when a
glob fails to match, e.g. `ls *` in an empty directory. However, if a
qualified glob fails to match, the behaviour is inconsistent, depending
on whether the lack of matches is due to the glob or the qualifier. For
example `ls *(@)` in an empty directory will error (* does not match),
but `ls *(@)` in a directory with no symlinks will not ((@) does not match).
I have replicated this when running with `emacs -q`. To replicate:
- Start emacs
- (setq eshell-error-if-no-glob t)
- M-x eshell
- cd to or create and cd to an empty directory
- `ls *` will give "No matches found: *" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "No matches found: *" (as expected?)
- create an empty file, e.g. `touch foo`
- `ls *` will give "foo" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "foo" (but we only wanted symlinks!)
- create a symlink, e.g. `cp -s foo foo-link`
- `ls *` will give "foo foo-link" (as expected)
- `ls *(@)` will give "foo-link" (as expected)
This is not exclusive to the symlink predicate, equivalent examples can
be devised for the others with the same behaviour. For what it's worth,
zsh (on, from what I understand of the documentation, eshell's globbing
behaviour is based) will fail to match on *(@) when there are no
symlinks in the current directory.
Ideally, I believe eshell should copy zsh's behaviour should error if a
qualifier causes a glob not to match.
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