From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bpr9ul08.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452484220 29334 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2016 03:50:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, 2148@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Alan J Third Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 04:50:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUe-0005Rd-TQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:50:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUe-0002tZ-4M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUZ-0002rl-Ou for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:50:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUY-0002yZ-T1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:57687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUY-0002yV-Pn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:50:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aITUY-0007dx-LH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:50:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 2148 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2148-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B2148.145248416529324 (code B ref 2148); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2148) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jan 2016 03:49:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45906 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aITTx-0007cu-FT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52477) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aITTv-0007ce-Vn for 2148@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITTq-0002mw-3l for 2148@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITTW-0002iP-Gy; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aITTV-0001av-SE; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Alan J Third on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:34:57 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111482 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Decades ago, I encountered on some systems that sending input to a pty would get hung because the tty's input buffer was full. I implemented the ^D to get the input delivered. The right fix is to change the implementation of ptys. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.