Ilya> The readline / bash bug described in <comint: long lines Ilya> truncated> may be fixed or not fixed. This is indeed a mess. patches welcome. I would guess a variable such as `comint-TERM' or maybe `comint-default-TERM', or both, would be what you want? Please think about what degree of flexibility you need, and let us know. (Especially how to avoid screwing things up worse!) Note that the normal hack for bash is to inhibit readline with the --no-editing flag. I realize that's not sufficient, but would appreciate your opinion on whether it's sometimes useful or not. Ilya> So there must be a way in `comint.el' to revert to old Ilya> `TERM=emacs' setting, and for some particular program being Ilya> run, not globally. OK. Maybe a specifier, or perhaps buffer-local would be enough. I'm thinking about a generalization of specifier to have a mode locale; if this variable took a specifier value, such generalizations would be automatic. Also, I can imagine having two frames with different values, a pretty rude hack but might be useful in some contexts. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.