GNU bug report logs - #1973
Bug in simple.el (Emacs version 22.2.1)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte <at> smolny.plus.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 2103

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Sebastian Tennant" <sebyte <at> smolny.plus.com>
Cc: <1973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1973: Bug in simple.el (Emacs version 22.2.1)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:30:47 -0500

> So the shell mode used in interactive shells (started with M-x shell) is
> enhanced somehow to handle ^Ms?

It's actually done in comint-mode rather than just in shell-mode.
See comint-carriage-motion.  Note that it's an approximation of the
actual semantics of ^M in a terminal, because comint-mode doesn't
actually provide the usual semantics of a terminal.

> Note that Kevin Rodgers does not observe the same behaviour:
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/24348

I'm not sure what he's referring to.


        Stefan
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