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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#15231: 24.3.50; eshell: variable `name' treated different from other variables |
Date: | Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:39:33 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> Is this a bug? >> Sounds like it, yes. More specifically it sounds like changing Eshell >> to use lexical-binding would fix this bug. > But why is this happening with just `name'? I don't know the precise cause of the bug, but my crystal ball says that the Eshell code that interprets your command itself uses a variable named "name". There are probably a few other variables names used by Eshell that suffer from the same kind of "capture". Stefan
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