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26.0.50; term.el: In char mode, displayed and executed commands can differ

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 24837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 21609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#24837: 26.0.50; term.el: In char mode, displayed and executed commands can differ
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 01:39:41 +1300

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On 29/09/17 21:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> On 2017-09-25 13:48, Phil Sainty wrote:
>> Thinking on this further, it might be even better to use 
>> pre-command-hook
>> to establish whether the pre-command position of point is equal to the
>> process mark, and then act conditionally on that in post-command-hook,
>> so that if the pre-command point did not already match the process mark,
>> we do *not* forcibly move it to the process mark afterwards.
> 
> Do you have a patch along these lines?

I've found a little time to work on this some more.

New patch attached, with the aforementioned changes.

I think the remaining task would be to add user options to disable
the new behaviours, as some users might object to them?


-Phil

[0001-Avoid-creating-inconsistent-buffer-states-in-term-ch.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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