From: Adam Spiers <bug-gnu-emacs@adamspiers.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4891: 23.1; shell-command overwrites whole buffer
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:14:14 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091109111414.B55872414F@arctic.adamspiers.org> (raw)
Starting emacs 23.1.1 with the '-q' argument and typing:
M-: (shell-command "date" (get-buffer "*scratch*"))
results in the prior contents of the *scratch* buffer being
overwritten. This seems to contradict the last sentence in the
following paragraph of the docstring for shell-command:
The optional second argument output-buffer, if non-nil, says to
put the output in some other buffer. If output-buffer is a buffer
or buffer name, put the output there. If output-buffer is not a
buffer and not nil, insert output in current buffer. (This cannot
be done asynchronously.) In either case, the output is inserted
after point (leaving mark after it).
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.6)
of 2009-09-29 on x86-7.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603901
configured using `configure '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-bu
ffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_GB.utf8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
M-: ( s h e l l - c o m m a n d SPC " d a t e " S-SPC
( g e t - b u f f e r SPC " * s c r a t c h * " ) )
<return> C-x b <return> M-x r e p o r <tab>
<return>
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Mon Nov 9 10:38:11 GMT 2009
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2009-11-09 11:14 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
2009-11-11 10:47 ` bug#4891: 23.1; shell-command overwrites whole buffer Juri Linkov
2009-11-12 1:15 ` Adam Spiers
2009-11-12 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 6:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-12 9:33 ` Adam Spiers
2009-11-14 16:15 ` bug#4891: marked as done (23.1; shell-command overwrites whole buffer) Emacs bug Tracking System
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