Package: emacs-el Version: 1:26.1+1-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/shell.el.gz
(I think that this is an Emacs bug, rather than a Debian packaging bug. I am using Emacs 26.1, amd64.) In shell-mode, the command history can get confused by bash's syntax for fd redirection, e.g. by "command 2> filename", and sometimes inserts a space between the fd and the ">". Here is a minimal example. $ emacs -q -nw M-x shell<ENTER> echo 2> /dev/null<ENTER> !echo<ENTER> M-p [to get the previous command in the history] and the *shell* buffer looks like: $ echo 2> /dev/null $ !echo echo 2> /dev/null [so far, so good] $ echo 2 > /dev/null [that spells trouble!] The problem is the space inserted between the "2" and the ">", which of course changes the meaning of the command. -Sanjoy -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages emacs-el depends on: ii emacs-common 1:26.1+1-3 emacs-el recommends no packages. emacs-el suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
