Re: comint broken with latest sumo
>>>> "JJ" == Jerry James
<Jerry.James(a)usu.edu> writes:
JJ> Hi Martin,
JJ> I'm using Brian Goetz's "Java: Concurrency in Practice" book in a
class
JJ> I'm teaching this semester. It was fun to see your name inside the
JJ> front cover.
I think JCIP is one of the best computer books ever written. I'm
still learning from it. My only regret is not having been one of the
authors; I seem to be stuck being a perpetual reviewer.
JJ> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> Oops....old address.
>
> I recently upgraded to xemacs-21.4.20 + xemacs-sumo-2006-12-21,
> and was disappointed to find that comint was broken in various
> interesting ways.
>
> Bug 1:
> xemacs -vanilla
> M-x shell
> $ sleep 1000
> C-c C-c does indeed kill the sleep process, but
> the message "C-c C-c" normally printed in the echo area is actually
> inserted into the buffer. Annoying and incompatible.
>
> Bug 2:
> Normally at end of buffer, C-a moves point from the end of the
> composed input to the end of the prompt.
>
> However if you copy/paste (i.e. comint-insert-input) text from
> somewhere else in the shell buffer to the end of buffer, then C-a has
> no effect. This appears to have something to do with "fields", which
> Jerry James has apparently worked on.
>
> This broken behavior is intolerable.
JJ> Yes, I agree. I have not had time to work on fixing the comint and
JJ> associated shell bugs for months now, either. I propose that we revert
JJ> to the versions of comint and shell that were in CVS before I started
JJ> monkeying with it. I'll keep the current versions in my workspace so
JJ> that I can hopefully iron out the problems eventually, but this
JJ> brokenness should not be visited upon everyone else in the meantime.
I agree.
Thanks, Jerry.
Martin
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