emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00, Motif Version 2.1.0)
 of 2002-03-18 on rds294
configured using `configure  --cache-file=/dev/null --host=hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 --prefix=/home/rdstt1/t901353/local --with-x-toolkit=motif --with-png'
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: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have two problems with 21.2.

In a shell window the cursor sometimes just goes away.  As soon as I type it
comes back, but it is odd behavior.

Also in a shell, I used to be able to hit ^C^C to interrupt a subjob.
That no longer works.  But the keystroke is still bound to
`comint-interrupt-subjob' and the odd thing is if I do 
esc-: (comint-interrupt-subjob) THAT works.

Thanks,
-tom
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Recent input:
<down> <escape> w C-x N C-g C-g C-h N C-x C-j <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> f C-s b u g C-a <C-up> C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a <escape> 
x e m a c s - b u SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
C-g <escape> x a p r o p o s <return> b u g <return> 
C-x o C-x 1 <next> <next> <next> <escape> x r e p o 
p r <backspace> <backspace> r t SPC e m a c s SPC b 
u SPC <return>

Recent messages:
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Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:28:43 -0500 (EST)
> 
> In a shell window the cursor sometimes just goes away.  As soon as I type it
> comes back, but it is odd behavior.

Could you please see if this is related to blinking cursor mode, by
disabling the blinking and running that way for a while?

Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

Recently Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, t901353@rds294.goodyear.com
> Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:32:24 -0500
> 
> > From: Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:28:43 -0500 (EST)
> > 
> > In a shell window the cursor sometimes just goes away.  As soon as I type it
> > comes back, but it is odd behavior.

> 
> Could you please see if this is related to blinking cursor mode, by
> disabling the blinking and running that way for a while?
> 

I checked `blink-cursor's value.  It is currently set to t.

But I just discovered something else.

If I open a shell window, the cursor is down at the end of the prompt, and I hit
the cntrl key (nothing else), the cursor toggles on and off almost 100% of the
time. Sometimes it stays on if on or off it it was off, but I'd guess 98% of the
time it toggles on and off.....huuummmm????

BTW, it STAYS off until I type something.

Aha!  I just tried the same in this *mail* buffer.  Same thing happens.

Aha Aha!  I just tried the same in this *mail* buffer with the shift key.  
*Same thing happens*.

But now I realize my cursor is not blinking at all.  Just stays solid.

So I just set the blink-cursor to nil.

Same thing here too.

Does any of this help?  I did not notice this in v 21.1....

Wait a second, I'll try it right now in 21.1...

21.1 cursor blinks.  I can not get it to go away.

Thanks for looking into this.

tom

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Tom Wurgler                             The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Principal Engineer                      Tire-Vehicle Engineering Technology
Phone:         330-796-1656             Technical Center D/460G            
Fax:           330-796-3292             P.O.Box 3531                       
internet mail: twurgler@goodyear.com    Akron, Ohio 44309-3531             
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Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

Now I tried: `blink-cursor-mode' command.

Initially, behavior is as described before.

After running `blink-cursor-mode', cursor stays solid and I can't get it to
fail.

I rerun `blink-cursor-mode' and the old (bad) behavior comes back.

thanks

tom

Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Richard Stallman]

    Also in a shell, I used to be able to hit ^C^C to interrupt a subjob.
    That no longer works.

What does it do?  What command does it actually run?
What command is C-c C-c bound to in the shell buffer?

Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

Recently Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:48:15 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, t901353@rds294.goodyear.com
> Reply-to: rms@gnu.org
> 
>     Also in a shell, I used to be able to hit ^C^C to interrupt a subjob.
>     That no longer works.
> 
> What does it do?  What command does it actually run?
> What command is C-c C-c bound to in the shell buffer?
> 

I am unable to duplicate the problem (right now at least).  What I had (ever
since installing 21.2) was that if I started a program in a shell and it was
prompting for a filename or whatever, if I hit ^C^C it did *NOT* abort the
program.  But if I did esc-x comint-interupt-subjob, that *DID* abort it.  But
in checking the keystroke, it really was bound to `comint-interupt-subjob' as it
should have been.  I know it sounds dumb, but it did it repeatedly, hence my
note to the list.

The ^C^C did nothing at all.  No interupt, no beep, nada.

Not much help, I know.

I'll let you know if it re-occurs.

Thanks
tom

Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

There's more.  I had already tried "emacs -q" to not load my local .emacs file.
But I had linked in libraries for jpeg/png/tif/gif etc, so my execuatable wasn't
a bare bones case.

So I tried NOT including those libs.  The cursor issue was still there, BUT I
saw that configure still found XPM, UNGIF and PNG

So I then configure as follows:

./configure --without-xpm --without-ungif --without-png

It still says it used ungif(?).  Here is a portion of the output from configure:

Configured for `hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    /home/rdstt1/t901353/src/emacs-21.2
  What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
        `s/hpux11.h' and `m/hp800.h'
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -g -O2
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          none
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lungif?                                 yes
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   no
  Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   no

And now the cursor blinks properly and I can't get it to fail.

I will try adding one thing at a time.





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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:39:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Wurgler <t901353@rds294.goodyear.com>
To: eliz@is.elta.co.il
CC: t901353@rds294.goodyear.com
Subject: [twurgler@goodyear.com: Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window]


Eli,

I now discover that the cursor goes off by just moving the mouse too.

thanks


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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:12:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com>
To: eliz@is.elta.co.il
CC: twurgler@goodyear.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In-reply-to: <E16qFPU-0000dm-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii
	on Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:32:24 -0500)
Subject: Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window


Now I tried: `blink-cursor-mode' command.

Initially, behavior is as described before.

After running `blink-cursor-mode', cursor stays solid and I can't get it to
fail.

I rerun `blink-cursor-mode' and the old (bad) behavior comes back.

thanks

tom
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