On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 02:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Alex Branham >> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:32:16 -0600 >> >> Is this patch OK for Emacs? Or should we figure it out downstream? > > Can you explain how having comint-prompt-read-only interferes with > interrupt-process in this case? I don't think I understand the > connection, and neither this bug report nor the ESS issue do, AFAICT. Sure thing. `comint-interrupt-subjob' calls `comint-skip-input', which tries to do this: (insert " " (key-description (this-command-keys))) Which fails if the text at point is read only. Thanks, Alex