GNU bug report logs - #21139
25.0.50; shell-mode doesn't respect comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output/input

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Message #45 received at 21139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#21139: 25.0.50;
 shell-mode doesn't respect comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output/input
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:42:26 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com,  21139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:57:25 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >   . M-x shell
> >   . move point back to some place in the buffer other than the last
> >     shell prompt
> >   . type something
> >
> > When comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input is non-nil, point moves to the
> > last shell prompt before your input is inserted; when the variable is
> > nil, whatever you type is inserted where point was, without moving it
> > anywhere.
> 
> The latter behaviour makes no sense to me, as I already said, so I filed
> my own report about that (not that I expect anything to result from it).

Which bug is that?

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