bug#7041: comint seems to truncate from places other than the top

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> If I add comint-truncate-buffer to comint-output-filter-functions, and
> set comint-buffer-maximum-size to 1024, then when a term buffer
> reaches about that size, and I run a command that produces a lot of
> output, then scroll back, some of the output is missing. In other
> words, rather than truncate from the top of the buffer, some of the
> truncation at least seems to happen much nearer the bottom.

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

Do you have a step-by-step recipe to reproduce this error, starting from
"emacs -Q"?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no