bug#55696: 28.1; eshell fails to respect text-scale-increase

[Jim Porter]

On 6/9/2022 12:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, installed.

Thanks.

> Perhaps unrelated to this, esh-var-tests hangs on my system in two
> tests: esh-var-test/interp-cmd-indices and
> esh-var-test/quoted-interp-cmd-indices.  Both of those invoke a
> command called "list", which exists on my MS-Windows system, but is
> probably not what the test expects, so it infloops.
>
> What is that "list" command?  I cannot find it on the GNU/Linux system
> to which I have access?  Can we modify these tests not to rely on
> non-standard commands?

That's actually supposed to be the `list' function from Elisp. Since 
there's no such command on GNU/Linux systems, Eshell uses the Elisp 
function of the same name, but as you found, that's not the right thing 
to do in general (some systems may have an external "list" program, in 
which case Eshell would use that instead).

Do the tests work if you replace "list" in those two functions with 
"listify"? (`eshell/listify' is a built-in Eshell alias function, which 
is the highest priority for Eshell commands, so it should always work.)