From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7339: 23.2; term-mode vs clone-buffer Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:31:49 +1100 Message-ID: <8739rftnai.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288997030 4394 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2010 22:43:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 22:43:50 +0000 (UTC) To: 7339@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 05 23:43:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEV0Y-00078G-0L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:43:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PEV0X-0001aV-DW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEUpx-0007BG-Mk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout2-5.pacific.net.au ([61.8.2.228]:47281 helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEUpx-0007AL-Dj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.162]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705302A6332 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 09:32:42 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from blah.blah (unknown [203.26.175.99]) by mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3EE8C07 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 09:32:36 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by blah.blah with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PEUp3-0001dN-4h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:31:49 +1100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:29:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41399 Archived-At: A term-mode buffer doesn't seem to duplicate with M-x clone-buffer very well. For example emacs -Q M-x term top Ret ;; run the "top" program C-c M-x clone-buffer => gets multiple inserts of the top output where I hoped the cloned buffer would have refreshing top output, instead of appending and growing the buffer. Nosing around the code it looks like clone-buffer runs up a new subprocess well enough, but that presumably something in the `term-mode' setups doesn't come out right. A line-oriented program like the default /bin/bash that M-x term offers seems a bit better, though point isn't left at the end of the new prompt. In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-05-16 on raven, modified by Debian configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS='' 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_AU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t