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bug#54190: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Incorrect/missing documentation for some Esh


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#54190: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Incorrect/missing documentation for some Eshell "$" syntaxes
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:11:01 -0800

On 2/27/2022 1:34 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
In fact, what "$<FOO>" does is to run FOO as a subcommand, writing its stdout to a temp file, and returning that file's name.
Hmm, that's unfortunate. It seems that the "$<FOO>" syntax in Eshell broke sometime between 27.2 and 28. I'm bisecting to figure out where that happened, but figured I'd mention it now so there's no confusion if someone tries it out now on 28/29. Fix forthcoming (hopefully).





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