shell-mode garbles input

shell-mode garbles input

[jidanni]

OK, I found a case of shell-mode line garbling that maybe you can
reproduce.

# ENV= PS1=#\  HOME=/tmp emacs -Q
M-x shell
root@jidanni1:/root# su - nobody
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
nobody@jidanni1:/$ exit
-su: e: command not found
nobody@jidanni1:/$ -su: xit: command not found
nobody@jidanni1:/$ exit
logout
root@jidanni1:/root# 

emacs-version "22.2.1"

Re: shell-mode garbles input

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-04-17 11:17 +0200, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> OK, I found a case of shell-mode line garbling that maybe you can
> reproduce.
>
> # ENV= PS1=#\  HOME=/tmp emacs -Q
> M-x shell
> root@jidanni1:/root# su - nobody
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> nobody@jidanni1:/$ exit
> -su: e: command not found
> nobody@jidanni1:/$ -su: xit: command not found
> nobody@jidanni1:/$ exit
> logout
> root@jidanni1:/root# 

Interesting, but probably not a bug in Emacs.  Please try the following:
log in as root on the console, type su - nobody (getting the "No
directory,..." message above) and type e.  Without hitting return, I got
the message: -su: e: command not found.

It's also funny that subsequent invocations of `su -c nobody' don't show
this behavior until I log out and in again.

Sven