[PATCH] compilation buffer lossage

A lot of my compilation buffers (M-x compile or M-x grep) mysteriously die with "exit status 255". I found this very strange, and I tracked it down to a change in compile-internal recently made by Kirill. Another syndrom of the change is that compilation buffers begin like this: cd /home/srce/hniksic/work/emacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/ egrep -n 'wget:' *.c /dev/null ^Dzsh: no matches found: *.c Notice the `^D' (two characters) and the ^H^H sequence of two control-h characters. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's very annoying. This patch fixes it, but I don't know enough about this code to judge if this is an XEmacs bug, or Kirill somehow missed a Unix process support subtlety. --- compile.el.orig Tue Apr 28 11:38:50 1998 +++ compile.el Tue Apr 28 11:39:11 1998 ＠＠ -660,7 +660,8 ＠＠ command))) (set-process-sentinel proc 'compilation-sentinel) (set-process-filter proc 'compilation-filter) - (process-send-eof proc) + ;; Causes problems; please investigate before using: + ;(process-send-eof proc) (set-marker (process-mark proc) (point) outbuf) (setq compilation-in-progress (cons proc compilation-in-progress))) -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.