GNU bug report logs - #20202
24.3; Comint mode sets a bad $EMACS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:46:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
Cc: 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 08:25:42 -0700

On 04/07/2016 08:18 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
> I can think of several possibilities. In particular, the EMACS=t behaviour
> of bash should also be replicable with bash -o emacs.
I expect that this problem affects programs other than bash. For 
example, tcsh 6.19.00 (the latest version of the first other shell that 
I checked) tests whether EMACS is "t".
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