"Ilya N. Golubev" <gin(a)mo.msk.ru&gt; wrote: I cannot reproduce this error. I tried with both 21.4 and 21.5. In both cases, the letter a was echoed back to me. As with the comint-interrupt-subjob problem, would you please use M-x report-emacs-bug so we can see what kind of system you are using, and also tell us about your modifications to comint.el and/or shell.el so we can see if those have an impact on the problem you are having. Thanks, -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University

"Ilya N. Golubev" <gin(a)mo.msk.ru&gt; wrote: This is a feature, not a bug. As the Emacs NEWS file explains it: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Comint now by default interprets some carriage-control characters. Comint now removes CRs from CR LF sequences, and treats single CRs and BSs in the output in a way similar to a terminal (by deleting to the beginning of the line, or deleting the previous character, respectively). This is achieved by adding `comint-carriage-motion' to the `comint-output-filter-functions' hook by default. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note also the third line of the comint-carriage-motion docstring (to which the comint-inhibit-carriage-motion docstring refers): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interpret carriage control characters in the region from START to END. Translate carriage return/linefeed sequences to linefeeds. Make single carriage returns delete to the beginning of the line. Make backspaces delete the previous character. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are working on a system that is providing you with bare '\r' characters, then you definitely want to be sure that comint-inhibit-carriage-motion is non-nil. -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University

Jerry James wrote: Ick. It should be up to the user to add comint-carriage-motion, IMHO. -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)gclements.plus.com&gt;

Jerry> Does anybody else want to voice an opinion? +1 for sanity. comint by its nature needs to add hooks, but they should be as non-invasive as possible, except by specific user request. -- 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.