bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 21 Jan 2022 at 08:54AM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 46351@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:16:20 -0700
>>
>> >> Okay, so I should add something to skip over my parsing code in the case
>> >> that the first thing in the input is a redirection?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure I understand the intent: what do you want to accomplish
>> > by this special handling?
>>
>> Perhaps I misunderstood your earlier message.  I thought that you were
>> saying that because Eshell does not support redirections at the very
>> beginning of the line at present, my new syntax should not support that
>> either, to prevent confusion.  Did you mean something else when you
>> wrote "if it doesn't work now, then we cannot break it?"
>
> I meant that if Eshell doesn't support that syntax, you can do
> whatever you want in that case.  You don't need to make any effort to
> support it, and you don't need to make any effort not to support it:
> whatever your code does in that case will be OK.

Ah, okay, I see now.  Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton