term.el (term-emulate-terminal)

[Harry Kuiper <hkuiper@xs4all.nl>]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2002-04-13 on mumon
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:

After starting term-mode with M-x term the terminal hangs after
handling just a few commands causing Emacs to block and draw 100% CPU.
The more output the command produces the likelier the terminal is to
hang.

Under X: Emacs can not be stopped by typing C-g twice.  Only by
killing it from an Xterminal.

At the console: Emacs stops after typing C-g twice and asks if it
should produce a dump.  I answered yes but then Emacs crashed hard
without producing the dump it promised.

I looked at the diffs between term.el in Emacs-21.1 and Emacs-21.2
using these I backed out the change Eli Zaretskii made at 2002-02-03
(see below, something about matching terminal prompt).  After that
term works OK again for me.

Apart from this little glitch I love Emacs-21.2.  Thanks!

<<<<< Eli's changes I backed out. >>>>>

+ 2002-02-03  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+ 
+ 	* mail/rmail.el (rmail): Use find-buffer-visiting instead of
+ 	get-file-buffer to check for rmail buffer existence.
+ 
+ 	* term.el (term-emulate-terminal): Extract proper command string
+ 	which is supplied to term-command-hook.
+ 

--- 797,814 ----
*************** See `term-prompt-regexp'."
*** 2856,2864 ****
  			    (beep t)) ; Bell
  			   ((eq char ?\032)
! 			    (let ((end (string-match "\n" str i)))
  			      (if end
  				  (progn (funcall term-command-hook
! 						  (substring str (1+ i) (1- end)))
! 					 (setq i end))
  				(setq term-terminal-parameter
  				      (substring str i))
--- 2831,2839 ----
  			    (beep t)) ; Bell
  			   ((eq char ?\032)
! 			    (let ((end (string-match "\r?$" str i)))
  			      (if end
  				  (progn (funcall term-command-hook
! 						  (substring str (1+ i) end))
! 					 (setq i (match-end 0)))
  				(setq term-terminal-parameter
  				      (substring str i))
<<<<< End >>>>>

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<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
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Harry Kuiper                 hkuiper@xs4all.nl
Haarlem, The Netherlands