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27.1; term-line-mode works poorly with git progress rewriting

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From: "Michael Hoffman" <emacs-hoffman <at> snkmail.com>
To: 60244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60244: 27.1; term-line-mode works poorly with git
 progress rewriting
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 12:33:34 -0500

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Thanks so much for looking into this.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:01 AM miha wrote:

> Two possible ideas to solve this:
>
> - Introduce a new marker to separate user input from process output.
>
> - Use text properties to distinguish user input from process output.
>   This is what comint.el does, it marks process output with 'field' =
>   'output'.
>

Is one of these options preferred? The second idea sounds more robust, and
also it is nice that the example of comint.el exists for it. But perhaps I
am naive about what they require.

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