bug#47048: dirtrack debug mode log

[Thomas Walker Lynch via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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from dirtrack.el:
  (if dirtrack-mode
      (add-hook 'comint-preoutput-filter-functions 'dirtrack nil t)

M-x describe-variable
comint-preoutput-filter-functions is a variable defined in ‘comint.el’.
Its value is (dirtrack shell-filter-ctrl-a-ctrl-b t)
Local in buffer *shell*; global value is nil


On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:04 PM Thomas Walker Lynch <
thomas.lynch@reasoningtechnology.com> wrote:

> This code ran for years before it stopped working recently, and it doesn't
> look like the dirtrack.el code has changed either, but I could be wrong
> about that, the comment says the variable has not changed since 24.1.
> Unfortunately,  Fedora 33 will not allow me to use dnf to go to an older
> release for emacs.  It  says that the one used now is the only package for
> emacs for F33.
>
> I see in the dirtrack.el comments that a third prompt of t should be added
> for a multi line prompt.  I have added that.  It made no difference.  There
> are some good examples in the comments.  The prompt used for this bug
> report is much like their solaris example.
>
> The dirtrack.el mentions regular expression groups as the second
> argument.  It is set to 1.  I do not know what that is referring to.  In
> any case, it does not look like the dirtrack-list is the problem.
>
> Rather it looks like the problem is that the input to (defun dirtrack
> (input)) is being limited to 48 chars.  It is not difficult to find paths
> on this system that exceed 44 chars in length (plus the prompt sugar).
>  Where is this limitation imposed?  Is there a variable for it somewhere?
> It is disappointing that the regular expression match has a maximum length
> to trip on at all.
>
>
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> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM Thomas Walker Lynch <
> thomas.lynch@reasoningtechnology.com> wrote:
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