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Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh

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From: "ÖÜÈηÉ" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:28:19 +0800

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When use zsh instead of bash, shell become very annoying.


Even if I do not edit the shell buffer, but changing its size, there will be extra lines generated in the buffer, which is not expected.


GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-09-20

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
Cc: 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:49:46 +0200

<orbitingflea <at> qq.com> writes:

> When use zsh instead of bash, shell become very annoying.
>
> Even if I do not edit the shell buffer, but changing its size, there will be extra
> lines generated in the buffer, which is not expected.

Do you have a recipe to reproduce the problem, starting from "emacs -Q"?
It would also be helpful with some screenshots.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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From: "ÖÜÈηÉ" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: More details about bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:47:57 +0800

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When use zsh instead of bash, shell become very annoying. Even if I do not edit the shell buffer, but changing its size, there will be extra lines generated in the buffer, which is not expected.



Here is a recipe to reproduce the bug. See attached for screenshots.


(1) Starting from emacs -Q.


  [1.png in attached]


(2) M-x shell. Here my default shell is zsh, and I also have oh-my-zsh installed.


  [2.png in attached]


You can see there are multi-line "leading info" (sorry for my poor English, I mean the characters on the left of the cursor before you enter a command in the shell, showing the username and the current directory; I don't know what it is called in English), but in bash there is only one line instead. I guess this is the key of the problem.


By the way, maybe there are different "schemes" or "styles" for zsh, for some of them there will be multi-line leading info.


(3) Repeat C-x 1, C-x 2, C-x 1, C-x 2, ...


  [3.png & 4.png in attached]


There will be more and more lines in the shell, which is unexpected, because you did not edit the buffer.

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Message #14 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: η via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
 of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: η <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>, 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50186: More details about bug#50186: Shell in emacs very
 annoying using zsh
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:54:41 +0200

Hello,

> When use zsh instead of bash, shell become very annoying. Even if I do
> not edit the shell buffer, but changing its size, there will be extra
> lines generated in the buffer, which is not expected.

Could it be that zsh requires a terminal emulator?

Michael.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: orbitingflea <at> qq.com
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:10:31 +0300

> You can see there are multi-line "leading info" (sorry for my poor English,
> I mean the characters on the left of the cursor before you enter a command
> in the shell, showing the username and the current directory; I don't know
> what it is called in English), but in bash there is only one line instead.
> I guess this is the key of the problem.

This is called "prompt", and you can change such multi-line prompt in zsh

  PROMPT=$'%~\n%# '

simply by removing \n.  Then the prompt will stay on one line.

In bash there are different shell variable names for prompt,
for example, PS1='\w\n$ ' where you can remove \n too.

Message #23 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: orbitingflea <at> qq.com, 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:58:19 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> This is called "prompt", and you can change such multi-line prompt in zsh
>
>   PROMPT=$'%~\n%# '
>
> simply by removing \n.  Then the prompt will stay on one line.

And is it a known limitation of shell that multi-line prompts cause
problems?

Michael.

Message #26 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 周任飞 <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
Cc: 50186 <50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:54:05 +0200

"周任飞" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> > And is it a known limitation of shell that multi-line prompts cause
> > problems?
>
> No. When I use the terminal outside emacs, it works very well.
> Here's the screenshot:

Sorry for the confusion: my question was whether someone knows if this
is a known limitation in the Emacs shell mode.

Michael.

Message #29 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "ÖÜÈηÉ" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
To: "50186" <50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Multi-line prompt is the reason
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:01:37 +0800

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Zsh worked well if the prompt is in a single line. The bug comes from multi-line prompt, i.e., when emacs shell used with multi-line prompt, unexpected lines are generated.

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Message #32 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: orbitingflea <at> qq.com, 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:57:58 +0300

>> This is called "prompt", and you can change such multi-line prompt in zsh
>>
>>   PROMPT=$'%~\n%# '
>>
>> simply by removing \n.  Then the prompt will stay on one line.
>
> And is it a known limitation of shell that multi-line prompts cause
> problems?

Actually, I see no problems with multi-line prompts in Emacs.
I tried to use "\n" in PS1 in bash, and then run M-x shell.
No problems noticed :)

Message #35 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "ÖÜÈηÉ" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
To: "Juri Linkov" <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: orbitingflea <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>,
 50186 <50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 17:26:36 +0800

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Hello Juri,


> Actually, I see no problems with multi-line prompts in Emacs.
> I tried to use "\n" in PS1 in bash, and then run M-x shell.
> No problems noticed :)


Wow! That's surprising to me.
Maybe I should show my zsh config file that generating this bug:


export ZSH="/home/friend/.oh-my-zsh"
ZSH_THEME="ys"
plugins=(git)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
export DISPLAY=`cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2}'`:0.0
export PATH="/home/friend/.local/bin:$PATH"



Here I used "ys" theme of oh-my-zsh, and it has multi-line prompt.
By the way, I tested bash with multi-line prompt, as you said. No problem.
So the problem comes from zsh?

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From: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs <at> gmail.com>
To: ���ηÉ <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
Cc: 50186 <50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 13:28:00 -0300

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Zsh is one of the programs that I need to run with
`comint-process-echoes' set to t in the comint buffer...

?ηÉ/orbitingflea, can you define these two functions,

  (defun det () (interactive) (setq comint-process-echoes t))
  (defun den () (interactive) (setq comint-process-echoes nil))

and then use Zsh a bit with comint-process-echoes set to true and a
bit with comint-process-echoes set to nil - use `M-x det' and `M-x
den' to change the value - to see if something changes?

  [[]],
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/#eev



On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 at 13:06, ���ηÉ via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the
Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Juri,
>
> > Actually, I see no problems with multi-line prompts in Emacs.
> > I tried to use "\n" in PS1 in bash, and then run M-x shell.
> > No problems noticed :)
>
> Wow! That's surprising to me.
> Maybe I should show my zsh config file that generating this bug:
>
> export ZSH="/home/friend/.oh-my-zsh"
> ZSH_THEME="ys"
> plugins=(git)
> source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
> export DISPLAY=`cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print
> $2}'`:0.0
> export PATH="/home/friend/.local/bin:$PATH"
>
> Here I used "ys" theme of oh-my-zsh, and it has multi-line prompt.
> By the way, I tested bash with multi-line prompt, as you said. No problem.
> So the problem comes from zsh?
>

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Message #41 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "周任飞" <orbitingflea <at> qq.com>
To: "Eduardo Ochs" <eduardoochs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50186 <50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:16:35 +0800

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Hello Eduardo Ochs,


> and then use Zsh a bit with comint-process-echoes set to true and a
> bit with comint-process-echoes set to nil - use `M-x det' and `M-x
> den' to change the value - to see if something changes?



First I noticed that comint-process-echoes is not defined in shell mode.
Then I switched the shell buffer to comint mode. Then, in both det and
den settings, the problem still happens.


--------
Zhou Renfei

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