GNU bug report logs - #24837
26.0.50; term.el: In char mode, displayed and executed commands can differ

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:11:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 21609

Found in versions 24.5, 26.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 24837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 24837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 21609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24837: 26.0.50; term.el: In char mode, displayed and executed
 commands can differ
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:44:29 +0000

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Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> schrieb am Mo., 31. Okt. 2016 um
21:46 Uhr:

> On 2016-11-01 03:10, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> > This is dangerous because a different command is executed than the one
> > that is visible in the buffer.
> > Either Emacs should make sure that after C-<backspace> the same command
> > that is displayed is sent to the shell, or it should disable
> > C-<backspace> in char mode altogether.
>
>
> This is a duplicate of bug #21609 -- any command which directly
> modifies the state of the terminal buffer can cause the apparent
> state to be out of sync with the 'actual' state (i.e. the state
> according to the inferior process).
>

Should maybe terminal buffers in char-mode be read-only? The process filter
could then use inhibit-read-only.

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