Flight Log / tomhrr/cosh #169
Fix $ handling: treat as string in scripts, command in interactive mode — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in tomhrr/cosh on Jun 17, 2025; merged clean in 28 h, merged by @tomhrr: +34 −12, 6 files, 0 reviews.
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- fix
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GitHub Copilot fixed cosh's handling of a leading dollar sign, which ran as an external command everywhere. It treats the sign as a string in script mode and as a command in interactive mode. Six files changed, with 34 additions and 12 deletions across four commits. It merged after 27.98 hours with zero change requests.
From the pull request description
This PR fixes the issue where `$` at the beginning of a line was always treated as an external command, regardless of whether cosh was running in script mode or interactive mode. ## Problem Previously, `$` was always tokenized as `CommandUncaptured` and executed as an external command in all conte…
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
- —committedTom Harrison
- Jun 18, 2025mergedtomhrr
- Jun 18, 2025closedtomhrr
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