GNU bug report logs - #2148
In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Addison-Wood <richard <at> wetafx.co.nz>

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.5

Done: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 2148 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Richard Addison-Wood <richard <at> wetafx.co.nz>
Cc: 2148 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:18:51 -0500

> I attempted to do this command in shell mode:
> echo
> _234567_10....
> The immediate output was:
> 0_23456_260: Command not found.
> but when I hit enter again without typing anything else, I got:
> _234567_10_234567....
> So the first 254 characters I typed got held back, and the additional
> 11 characters were sent to the inferior shell.  Further, the held back
> characters were then sent when I pressed enter again.
>
>In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

I can't reproduce this, on either 22.3.1 or Emacs 23.  Could you see if
the bug is present in the Emacs 23 pretest?  You can find the pretest
tarball at

 http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/

Thanks.
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