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25.0.50; Directory tracking in ansi-term broken.

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From: "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
Subject: bug#20484: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 19:12:46 +0100

On Fri, April 8, 2016 5:49 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> EMACS=t is for the old versions of Bash and other shells that look at
>> that.
>
> What change in behavior has been observed by removing EMACS=t from
> comint?
>
> As far as I can tell, nobody has reported any change of behavior yet.
>

I worried about this -- why did line-editing not cause problems, given
that it is this that EMACS=t disables.

So I tested this by doing this:

bind -x '"\C-r"':reset

which gives a warning

bash: bind: warning: line editing not enabled


It turns out that M-x shell gives a warning in emacs-25 head AND
emacs-25.0.91. So it appears that the bash  EMACS=t handling is redundant,
at least with respect to line editing. M-x shell passed --noediting
through explicit-bash-args.

Phil

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