bug#59956: closed (29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation)

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Eshell after variable interpolation
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regarding 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable 
interpolation
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> Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:25:53 -0800
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> Starting from "emacs -Q -f -eshell", type "echo $exec-path " (note the 
> trailing space), and then hit TAB. The result is this error:
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>   pcomplete-match: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("/usr/bin" ...)
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> This is a regression from Emacs 28, and it looks like it's due to 
> 'pcomplete-here-using-help' assuming that all the pcomplete args are 
> strings. However, 'exec-path' is a list (and Eshell reports it this way 
> to pcomplete), so the completion fails. I think all that's necessary is 
> checking that the pcomplete args are strings in 
> 'pcomplete-here-using-help', but I know next to nothing about pcomplete...
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> No further comments in a week, pushed (dafa6d6bad) and closing.
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