bug#23993: 25.0.91; cursor vanishes at prompt

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

The following configuration makes the cursor vanish when at the end of a *shell* buffer.

Emacs -Q
(shell)
;; evaluate this somewhere:
(set-face-attribute 'comint-highlight-prompt nil :height 100)

Select the window with the *shell* buffer, maybe press Enter to add a line with a prompt.

In practice, this occurs in a more complex configuration, too - in other comint buffers, and with various font height configurations, or with fonts enlarged via face-remapping-alist.   This is happens all the time in the Aquamacs configuration.

I think it’s new in -25, but I haven’t checked.






In GNU Emacs 25.0.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.3.0, NS appkit-1404.34 Version 10.11.3 (Build 15D21))
 of 2016-02-29 built on momo.local
Repository revision: 52f64cc2e74ab83752c8f2d37ef0fc6df5ef8b30
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1404
Configured features:
RSVG DBUS NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
#<buffer *shell*>
nil
delete-backward-char: Text is read-only
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
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