Subject: bug#6920: 23.2; ESC passed out of order to post-read-conversion

From: Ryan Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:28:02 +0200

This problem shows up running in terminal mode on a cygwin xterm,
apparently because it sends terminal escape sequences one character at a
time (where linux usually sends the whole thing at once). To reproduce,
run the following three elisp commands:

(define-coding-system 'utf-8-echo
   "Echoes all input to the message area"
   :coding-type 'utf-8
   :mnemonic ?U
   :ascii-compatible-p t
   :charset-list '(unicode)
   :post-read-conversion 'echo-conversion)
(defun echo-conversion (len)
   (let* ((p (point))
      (e (+ p len))
      (str (buffer-substring p e)))
     (message "%s" str)
     len))
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8-echo)

Then start using the left arrow key to navigate. The escape sequence is
'^[OD' and every few arrow presses garbled bits of the "OD" portion will
appear in the buffer and the point doesn't move properly. A
representative sample of the message buffer looks like this:

^[
O
D
^[
O
D
O
D
^[ [2 times]
O
D

The lossage buffer (below) shows how emacs becomes very confused as a
result, reporting 'ESC O D O D D O D D ESC' at one point. Defining a
similar coding system based on iso-8859-1 instead of utf-8 causes emacs
to crash. Unfortunately, cygwin-gdb doesn't trap the signal so I can't
produce a stack trace, but sometimes it gets stuck in an endless loop
inside malloc, which suggests some sort of memory corruption is the
culprit. As far as I know, 'ESC O D' is valid in both coding systems
so that shouldn't be the problem.

System info follows...

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
  of 2010-08-12 on host
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/Ryan/apps/emacs-23.2' 
'--without-xpm' '--without-png' '--without-gif''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: C.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 0 ; 2 6 2 ; 0 c ESC ] 1 1 ; r g b : 0 0 0 0
/ 0 0 0 0 / 0 0 0 0 ESC \ ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC C-x ESC [ 1 ; 5
B ESC C-x ESC x s e t - k e y TAB RET u t f - 8 - e
c h o RET O D D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D O D
D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D O D D O D
D ESC O D ESC O D ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB RET

Recent messages:
t
-
e
m

^M
E
S
C
^M

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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