Ar an triú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Martin Buchholz:
Hi guys, Long time no chat. I'm still using xemacs 21.4. Thanks
for
maintaining xemacs!
I noticed the main web page
https://www.xemacs.org/ still lists the stable
release as xemacs-21.4.22 but on the ftp site 21.4.24 is available.
(Please fix!)
Right, Vin stopped doing the structured release notes that converted easily
to HTML, probably out of frustration.
So I finally tried updating, and ran into a problem where my
shell buffer exhibits this strange behavior
M-x shell
$ tty
/dev/pts/82
$ echo >/dev/tty
zsh: no such device or address: /dev/tty
Obviously my shell would be much happier is /dev/tty was an actual device.
(I looked for the revision control for xemacs-21.4, but couldn't find it.
The mercurial repository at bitbucket doesn't have any tags for 21.4. Is
the source code control for 21.4 to be found elsewhere than at
https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/xemacs?)
The obvious suspect is the change below, although I haven't proved it:
changeset: 5872:4949ccab25f1
user: Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org>
date: 2015-03-24 15:50 -0400
Get M-x shell working on cygwin
Ohhhhhhh, but now I see this change in 21.5:
changeset: 5932:a561e02bb626
user: Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org>
date: 2016-06-03 09:30 -0600
Fix M-x shell under tcsh on Linux.
which is a likely fix for my problem, but not in any 21.4. release (please
fix!)
I can attempt to commit it, but please confirm it fixes your issue first.
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