Document synchronous behavior of eshell/make (Bug#32513)

* doc/misc/eshell.texi (Built-ins):
* lisp/eshell/em-unix.el (eshell/make): Mention that it falls back to
the external 'make' command when called synchronously.
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Noam Postavsky 2018-09-19 18:57:37 -04:00
parent 98544ea3ea
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@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ Alias to Emacs's @code{locate} function, which simply runs the external
@item make
@cmindex make
Run @command{make} through @code{compile}.
@xref{Compilation, , , emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.
Run @command{make} through @code{compile} when run asynchronously
(e.g., @samp{make &}). @xref{Compilation, , , emacs, The GNU Emacs
Manual}. Otherwise call the external @command{make} command.
@item occur
@cmindex occur

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@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.")
;; special front-end functions for compilation-mode buffers
(defun eshell/make (&rest args)
"Use `compile' to do background makes."
"Use `compile' to do background makes.
Fallback to standard make when called synchronously."
(if (and eshell-current-subjob-p
(eshell-interactive-output-p))
(let ((compilation-process-setup-function