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29.1; Tramp connection property "direct-async-process" causes job control not to work in M-x shell buffers

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From: Alex Hutcheson <alexhutcheson <at> google.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: "Alex Hutcheson via Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,
 71259 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71259: 29.1; Tramp connection property "direct-async-process"
 causes job control not to work in M-x shell buffers
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 13:02:30 -0400

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Great, thanks for the quick fix!

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 1:00 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
wrote:

> Alex Hutcheson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> > Actual behavior:
> >
> > Shell buffer starts a shell, but shows errors at the top of the buffer:
> >
> > sh: cannot set terminal process group (128765): Inappropriate ioctl
> > for device
> > sh: no job control in this shell
> >
> > Shell mostly works, but job control features don't work.
> > C-c C-z does nothing
> > C-c C-c kills the shell, rather than the currently running job
> > fg and bg give errors like:
> > sh: fg: no job control
>
> I could reproduce & fix it in recent Tramp sources. Pushed to the
> repositories.
>
> Unfortunately, the fix cannot be backported to Emacs 29 trivially. So
> you might try either Emacs 30 or Tramp 2.7 from the respective git
> repositories. Or you wait a little bit, until Tramp 2.7.1 appears on GNU
> ELPA. Planned for end of June.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>

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