Subject: bug#6691: 23.2; Eshell and ^M (PATCH attached)

From: John Wiegley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:40:34 -0500

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Does anybody know whether the `eshell-last-output-block-begin' stuff really
> is cruft that can be removed?

The original meaning of that variable was for performance: so that output
filter would only be run again on newly accumulated output text, not on text
that had already been filtered.

John