Subject: bug#34318: 26.1.90; Strange behavior of two line message with running shell

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:36:18 +0200

On February 5, 2019 12:21:50 PM GMT+02:00, martin rudalics <[email-masked]> wrote:
>  > What is the value of print-escape-newlines?
> 
> So it's
> 
> commit a92e7b4ef6915e079a97e4e33e45b11508170cb1
> Author: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Wed Apr 25 12:20:04 2018 -0700
> 
>      Don’t set print-escape-newlines in the minibuffer
> 
>      This appears to be an unnecessary and possibly-confusing
>      revenant from ancient code (Bug#31251).  See thread containing:
>      https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-04/msg00654.html
>      * src/minibuf.c (read_minibuf): Do not set print-escape-newlines.
>     * src/print.c (syms_of_print): Do not defsym print-escape-newlines
>      or print-escape-control-characters, as these symbols are not used
>      in C code.
> 
> that fixed the behavior for Emacs 27.  Since it apparently worked
> until Emacs 25 we have a regression in Emacs 26 though.
> 
> Thanks for spotting it, martin

What regression is that?  Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any problem with the latest pretest of Emacs 26.2.