bug#13223: 24.2; comint history rendered useless by messages

["Tim Daly Jr." <tim@tenkan.org>]

I always have to comment out the line (1194 in my copy) in comint.el
that does this:

(message "History item: %d" (1+ pos))

because it makes M-r in shell mode too slow to use.  You hit M-r and
type something and it just spams the heck out of you and goes nowhere.


In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
 of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1138
Configured using:
 `configure '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin' '--build=i686-apple-darwin'
 '--with-ns' 'build_alias=i686-apple-darwin'
 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin' 'CC=gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5''

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_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  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
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
T h e SPC i n d e <backspace> <backspace> t e n d e 
d SPC e f f e c t SPC i s SPC j u s t SPC t o SPC k 
i l l SPC t h e SPC f o r e g r o u n d SPC p r o c 
e s s SPC o n SPC t h e SPC r e o <backspace> m o <backspace> 
o t e SPC h o s t . C-n C-p C-f C-SPC C-M-f C-M-f M-f 
M-f M-f C-f C-f C-w C-p M-b M-b C-y SPC M-q C-n C-n 
C-e C-n M-< C-e M-b M-b M-b M-b M-b C-SPC C-e C-b C-w 
y a h o o - M-b M-b C-SPC C-e C-b C-w t i m @ t e n 
k a n . o r g C-n C-a C-n C-n C-v C-v M-> M-< C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-c C-c y e s <return> 
m a i l SPC c l i e n t <return> C-SPC M-< C-x C-n 
C-n C-n C-g C-x 1 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-g C-SPC C-n C-p 
C-n C-n C-p C-p C-n C-w <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-SPC C-p C-w C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-SPC M-> M-w M-< 
C-n M-f C-f C-f C-SPC C-e M-w C-n C-a M-f M-b C-SPC 
C-e M-w C-x k <return> y e s <return> C-x b c <backspace> 
c o m <tab> i <tab> <return> C-p C-p C-a M-f M-b C-b 
C-b C-f C-SPC C-e M-w M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> C-g 
M-x r e p r o t - b u <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> o r t - b u g <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Quit [2 times]
Mark set [3 times]
Saved text from "
If you ssh someplace in shell mode and "
Mark set [2 times]
Auto-saving...done
Mark set
Making completion list...
Mark set
Making completion list...
Quit

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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