Re: Echoing of keys and process I/O

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> When Emacs is communicating with a process, the display of multi-
> character keys in the echo area is disturbed. I was wondering why this
> is so, and if there is anything that can be done about it.
>
> For example, in shell mode:
>
>     while true; do echo; sleep .5; done
>
> Now I can't see keystrokes in the echo area unless I set
> echo-keystrokes to <= 0.5.

I can't reproduce this on

  GNU Emacs 22.0.94.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6)

Using the following recipe (echo-keystrokes == 1):

M-x shell RET
while true; do echo; sleep .5; done RET
C-u 1 C-x

The string "C-u 1 C-x" appears in the echo area.