bug#11167: trunk; term.el inserts newline when erasing-to-eol [PATCH]

[Chong Yidong]

Geoff Jacobsen <geoffjacobsen@gmail.com> writes:

> When term.el receives a "^[[K" erase-end-of-line the
> term-erase-in-line function inserts a new line. 
>
> When variable term-scroll-show-maximum-output is set to t this can
> result in a blank line at the bottom of the buffer.
>
> This breaks programs such as less which won't display the top line.
>
> I can't see the purpose for the new-line. The following patch removes
> it.

Sorry for the late response.  Do you have a simple recipe demonstrating
the problem?  I can't reproduce any problem with "less", which seems to
display fine (including the top line) under term mode.