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: "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
To: "Paul Eggert" <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
Subject: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:07:22 +0100

On Thu, April 7, 2016 4:25 pm, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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".

Well, I need to scope this. If the issue is tcsh and bash, then I will
look at both. I cannot, of course, look at any arbitrary program which
might be affected.

Phil
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