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bug#7041: comint seems to truncate from places other than the top
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#7041: comint seems to truncate from places other than the top |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 23:31:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> If I try it now, it doesn't seem to truncate the buffer as expected: for
> example
>
> emacs -Q
> M-: (add-to-list 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-truncate-buffer)
> M-x term
> C-c M-x set-variable comint-buffer-maximum-size 256 ; do this after M-x term
> because before comint-buffer-maximum-size is not defined
> $ seq 1 1024
>
> The entire output is retained, and not truncated. Truncation seems to happen
> at
> 2048 lines. This does not even correspond to the original value of the
> variable
> (1024).
I'm not getting any truncation... but that variable is about comint
buffers, like in `M-x shell' and the like. Is term-mode a comint
buffer? It's not derived from comint-mode, so I'm not sure whether this
is supposed to work there?
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