Re: emacs hangs in ansi-term

[Harry Kuiper <hkuiper@xs4all.nl>]

Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de writes:

<snip>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> 
> The problem that was discussed in the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup happens
> by me always. To produce the bug I do the following:
> 
> $ emacs -q --no-site-file
> M-x ansi-term
> Run program: /bin/bash
> 
> Now type in in the buffer *ansi-term* for example 'ls' and then emacs
> seems to be in a endless loop and consumes a lots of memory. Stopping
> with C-g is not possible. This happens also with the most other
> commands. E.g. 'echo $ABC' (ABC is a non exixting env variable)
> produces strange output. 'echo $HOME' causes the same as ls. Emacs
> hangs!

This problem was solved by Daiki Ueno.  His patch will be part of the
next Emacs release.  FYI here is the patch:

Index: term.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/term.el,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -F^( -r1.46 term.el
--- term.el	3 Feb 2002 11:25:23 -0000	1.46
+++ term.el	14 Apr 2002 00:56:23 -0000
@@ -2827,11 +2827,11 @@ (defun term-emulate-terminal (proc str)
 			   ((eq char ?\^G)
 			    (beep t)) ; Bell
 			   ((eq char ?\032)
-			    (let ((end (string-match "\r?$" str i)))
+			    (let ((end (string-match "\r?\n" str i)))
 			      (if end
-				  (progn (funcall term-command-hook
-						  (substring str (1+ i) end))
-					 (setq i (match-end 0)))
+				  (funcall term-command-hook
+					   (prog1 (substring str (1+ i) end)
+					      (setq i (match-end 0))))
 				(setq term-terminal-parameter
 				      (substring str i))
 				(setq term-terminal-state 4)

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Harry Kuiper                 hkuiper@xs4all.nl
Haarlem, The Netherlands