From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ^M chars in *Async Command Output* Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:37:18 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1232703501.688012@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232703687 31478 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 09:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:41:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 10:42:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQIYg-0000MU-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:42:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQIXO-00008P-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:41:18 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1232703566 23504 143.93.54.11 (23 Jan 2009 09:39:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:39:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-214-029.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166260 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61584 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Hi all, > > When I issue asynchronous commands using shell-command, for example: > > M-! apt-get update & RET > > buffer *Async Command Output* is filled with ^M characters and the > output is generally a mess. > > Apparently not all Emacsen behave in this way though. > > If you have a moment, could you perform a similar test and let us know > if the same thing happens to you. Include the Emacs version number in > your follow-up, and if it _does_ happen to you and you have a little > more time, whether you consider it a feature or a bug? > > Your assistance is much appreciated. > > Sebastian I tried it with aptitude, it's the same. The process uses carriage-returns to display the progress `widget' this show up as '^M' in emacs buffer. Somehow this processes think they are running in a terminal, I think because asynchronous shell-commands are runnning/started in a shell. In a terminal : $ echo -e 'Hello\rWorld' $ World In emacs : M-! echo -e 'Hello\rWorld' & Hello ^MWorld Maybe a process-filter-function is the solution or pipe the command through the utility 'col', like M-! apt-get update | col & -ap