Dear Bug Team! I've had some trouble with the terminal emulator provided by the eterm package (version 1.17). I first noticed the problem when using the XEmacs packages distributed by Debian, but the problem also occur after I build XEmacs myself with either of the --with-file-coding or --with-mule configuration options enabled. However, the problem doesn't happen if I build XEmacs with no configuration options enabled. After I type M-x term RET RET I get the following error message: (1) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (error /home/haakonst/xemac/ is not a directory) (Note there's a missing "s" character before the last slash in the directory name.) I've included the backtrace I get for this error when debug-on-error set is to t below. Anyhow, I'm presented with the terminal buffer and the shell prompt, but when I start to use it, the buffer gets garbled up in a way that makes me think that newlines are somehow inadvertently stripped before the text is displayed in the buffer. However, after some testing, I tried to change the coding system for process output to binary (for some reason the default value was undecided-dos), and that seems to solve the problem. So, I think that it could be useful to always set coding-system-for-read to binary before a process is started in the terminal, like this simple patch suggests: --- a/lisp/eterm/term.el 2005-06-27 07:37:01.000000000 +0000 +++ b/lisp/eterm/term.el 2008-06-25 22:05:00.000000000 +0000 ＠＠ -1095,7 +1095,8 ＠＠ (format "EMACS=%s (term:%s)" emacs-version term-protocol-version) (format "LINES=%d" term-height) (format "COLUMNS=%d" term-width)) - process-environment))) + process-environment)) + (coding-system-for-read 'binary)) (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (apply 'start-process name buffer command switches) This was actually derived from the equivalent code in term.el from GNU Emacs. The backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "/home/haakonst/xemac/ is not a directory") signal(error ("/home/haakonst/xemac/ is not a directory")) cerror("%s is not a directory" "/home/haakonst/xemac/") apply(cerror "%s is not a directory" "/home/haakonst/xemac/") error("%s is not a directory" "/home/haakonst/xemac/") cd-absolute("/home/haakonst/xemac") cd("/home/haakonst/xemac") #<compiled-function (string) "...(56)" [term-pending-frame fileline filename second-colon first-colon string 0 ?\^Z string-match ":" 1 string-to-int ?/ cd nil t] 4>("//home/haakonst/xemac") term-emulate-terminal(#<process "terminal" pid 9904 state:run> "^Z//home/haakonst/xemacs\n") ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux ninsei 2.6.25.7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 20 14:17:13 PDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-database=berkdb' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--infopath=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--prefix=/usr' '--dynamic' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--with-pop' '--with-file-coding' '--pdump' '--with-system-malloc' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.21/i486-linux-gnu/mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages' 'i486-linux-gnu' XEmacs 21.4.21 "Educational Television" configured for `i486-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /build/buildd/xemacs21-21.4.21 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O2 Compiler version: gcc (Debian 4.3.1-2) 4.3.1 Compiler specs file: specs. Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: no - User chose not to use GNU allocators. Need to guess glibc1/2/etc here Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: - X Windows libraries location: - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw - Athena library to link: Xaw Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. 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