From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geoff Gole Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6482: ^M zaps results Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:29:21 +0800 Message-ID: References: <871vbuifhi.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277532590 28973 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2010 06:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6482@debbugs.gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 08:09:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSOaG-0004Bb-QX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:09:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSOaE-0000Xj-Rs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:09:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56149 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSOa3-0000X5-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSOQ3-0006vn-AQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSOQ3-0006vj-7t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSNxs-0006bH-AC; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:30:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Geoff Gole Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:30:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6482 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 6482-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6482.127753016825347 (code B ref 6482); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:30:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6482) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jun 2010 05:29:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSNxH-0006am-1m for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.212.44]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSNxE-0006ag-Pt for 6482@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so2025991vws.3 for <6482@debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:29:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=uQACMqJmhDLES2obgNu2G7Dtc6d/2uMZUUfhF8SpY7A=; b=fFIxmyEwx/5To9+eiqbAn4R1ryy8UiyEpflL98jhYXPVW8kPtGErJqrytFpVGFZVqL IfnKR5p3J4bgu/aID7xw+h0XlVIUANnXQZvMbXkwwJjUz8HZEoX020J5+ausWoUi9Icb tdfTjKMcac/PuYVEN4dHBRkeWSHEgscCHDt4s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=e3q2MITWhxHEmvEMAVm1YkGl37UVuJUXca6MisE5ou2kqr2WT6TEEuMfe6k1i28SAV iehmv1LYnNgLvSrgefuV9nak6kNtR2xvDC606z1EC8NXiUOQ7wgGZsI9oiZ0ZZa6JpuG x3DVH8y9umw86qOm0mWO52q+0fayghqw9nBD0= Original-Received: by 10.229.218.195 with SMTP id hr3mr1059043qcb.114.1277530161326; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.188.147 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:29:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <871vbuifhi.fsf@jidanni.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:30:04 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:38027 Archived-At: > > All I know is for those tests of mine, at most there was only a split > second where we could see the thousands of characters. Whereas outside > of emacs in bash in xterm, there they were left pleasingly sitting on > the screen. > No, what the xterm showed you was junk with part of the text overwritten because of the ^M. You just didn't notice because the overwritten text didn't happen to be the bit you were interested in. You can't expect to cleanly view text that contains control characters at a shell prompt. Pipe it to less or something.