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In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters

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From: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Richard Addison-Wood <richard <at> wetafx.co.nz>
Cc: 2148 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:11:14 +0000

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

> Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:
>>
>>> The ^D is sent in process.c:5781.  If we are splitting a string into
>>> chunks for sending to the process, Emacs puts in an EOF (C-d) to "force
>>> it through".
>>>
>>> I can't think of any fix, off the top of my head.  Stefan, can you?  If
>>> not, we could simply document this limitation in PROBLEMS.
>>
>> I can't replicate this in Emacs 25 (or Emacs 24.5) on OS X, and I can't find the code
>> described above in the source, or at least in send_process. Can someone
>> who knows their way around better than me please confirm whether the
>> offending code has been removed, please?
>
> OK, this code is no longer in Emacs. It was removed sometime in the life
> of Emacs 24:
>
> commit 2b0a91e78f83fb446cc38efb99399e83ad2cded3
> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date:   Mon Apr 12 22:07:48 2010 -0400
>
>     Try to solve the problem of spurious EOF chars in long lines of text
>     sent to interactive subprocesses.
>     * sysdep.c (child_setup_tty): Do not enable ICANON any more.
>     (system_process_attributes): Remove unused var `ttotal'.
>     * process.c (send_process): Don't bother breaking long line with EOF
>     chars when talking to ttys any more.
>     (wait_reading_process_output): Output a warning when called in such
>     a way that it could block without being interruptible.
>
> So I believe we can close this bug.

Apologies, I think I closed this bug report without cc'ing you in. As
described above the behaviour you reported was removed some time ago. If
you're still experiencing it in a recent version of Emacs, please let me
know.

-- 
Alan Third

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