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29.4; 'what-cursor-position' reports SPC instead of TAB in term-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: toomas <at> rosin.ee

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Toomas Rosin <toomas <at> rosin.ee>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 73951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73951: 29.4; 'what-cursor-position' reports SPC instead of TAB in term-mode
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00:08 +0300

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > Start: emacs -Q
> > Type: M-x term RET
> > On Emacs prompt "Run program: /bin/bash", type: RET
> > The *terminal* buffer appears.
> > On Bash prompt, type: echo 'a TAB b' RET

Sorry, I forgot C-v: i.e., type: echo 'a C-v TAB b' RET

> > Bash prints: "a	b" (a TAB b), and displays new prompt.
>
> I cannot reproduce this because when I press TAB, I get a bell,
> i.e. TAB is not printed.  Which is consistent with what TAB produces
> outside Emacs, when I type it at Bash prompt: Bash attempts to perform
> completion on what I typed.
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