Subject: bug#22485: closed (Re: bug#22485: M-x compile cuts off output if signal is received!)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:21:01 +0000

Your bug report

#22485: M-x compile cuts off output if signal is received!

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#22485: M-x compile cuts off output if signal is received!
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:20:15 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Yes it must be something in my configuration files I mentioned, as it
> doesn't happen with emacs -Q. But what?

You can reopen this if you ever find out.

Subject: M-x compile cuts off output if signal is received!
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:38:46 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

$ cat makefile
boom:
	seq 1111; false
boom1:
	seq 1111; true
boom2:
	seq 1111; false; m=$$?; sleep 1; exit $$m

M-x compile make boom gives

...
1039
1040
10
Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Fri Jan 29 03:24:38

The output is cut off!

What if things looked good, except for an important message that was cut
off?!!?

make boom1 or make boom2 are fine.

Also make boom with a fresh account works fine.

Only make boom with my
http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration/ is bad.

See also #22283 .

(emacs-version)"GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.6)
 of 2016-01-23 on x86-csail-01, modified by Debian"