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bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 c
From: |
Alan J Third |
Subject: |
bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:11:14 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
Alan J Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> Alan J Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>>
>>> The ^D is sent in process.c:5781. If we are splitting a string into
>>> chunks for sending to the process, Emacs puts in an EOF (C-d) to "force
>>> it through".
>>>
>>> I can't think of any fix, off the top of my head. Stefan, can you? If
>>> not, we could simply document this limitation in PROBLEMS.
>>
>> I can't replicate this in Emacs 25 (or Emacs 24.5) on OS X, and I can't find
>> the code
>> described above in the source, or at least in send_process. Can someone
>> who knows their way around better than me please confirm whether the
>> offending code has been removed, please?
>
> OK, this code is no longer in Emacs. It was removed sometime in the life
> of Emacs 24:
>
> commit 2b0a91e78f83fb446cc38efb99399e83ad2cded3
> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon Apr 12 22:07:48 2010 -0400
>
> Try to solve the problem of spurious EOF chars in long lines of text
> sent to interactive subprocesses.
> * sysdep.c (child_setup_tty): Do not enable ICANON any more.
> (system_process_attributes): Remove unused var `ttotal'.
> * process.c (send_process): Don't bother breaking long line with EOF
> chars when talking to ttys any more.
> (wait_reading_process_output): Output a warning when called in such
> a way that it could block without being interruptible.
>
> So I believe we can close this bug.
Apologies, I think I closed this bug report without cc'ing you in. As
described above the behaviour you reported was removed some time ago. If
you're still experiencing it in a recent version of Emacs, please let me
know.
--
Alan Third