GNU bug report logs - #9961
non-empty ~/.emacs_SHELLNAME causes multiple shell prompts

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:50:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 40754

Found in version 27.0.91

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 9961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9961: Subject: 24.0.91; shell prompt doubled
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:58:36 -0500

The patch (which could not be applied anyway due to copyright reasons)
simply silently makes comint-exec ignore its STARTFILE argument, which
obviously cannot be the correct solution.

This issue occurs since at least Emacs 21.1.
If you have a non-empty ~/.emacs_bash file, eg one that contains just:

#comment

and do M-x shell with the bash shell, then you get an extra N copies of
your prompt, as the N lines of ~/.emacs_bash are fed to the shell by
comint-exec.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 67 days ago.

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