Re: On Windows(R) Emacs «shell» mode doesn't prints an output.

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Hi-Angel <hiangel999@gmail.com> writes:

> When I am working on Windows, I am using Emacs «shell» mode. The
> problem is that it sometimes doesn't prints an applications output
> (more precisely prints only after the app died).
> The problem is present exclusively in Emacs, e.g. if I am run an
> application in Windows® native terminal, it is works fine.
>
> I thought that the problem is in encoding, and set «shell»'s buffer
> with «C-x <RET> f» to UTF-16, which, as I know, uses MS, but it didn't
> fixed the problem.

1- this is not an emacs problem.

2- this is a basic programming question, that dates back since the dawn
   of computing.

3- what the fuck are you taught in school?


> Below is a simple example of an application that won't print an output in 
> Emacs:
>
> #include <cstdio>
> #include <cstring>
>
> int main(){
>     puts("Hello, enter something");
>     char buf[256];
>     memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
>     fgets(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, stdin);
>     puts(buf);
>     return 0;
> }
>
> This works fine in both GNU/Linux, and the terminal of Windows®, 

By pure chance.

> but not in Emacs shell mode on Windowsor.


YOU FORGOT TO FLUSH YOUR BUFFERS!

man 3 fflush

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