From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Choi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pcl-cvs help Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:54:14 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5l65sfa2t2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200301232349.h0NNnWo09694@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200301240123.h0O1NK022670@champion.sslsecure.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043942176 15628 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 15:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@porkrind.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eH2v-00043P-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:09 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18eH8d-0004Jk-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:02:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eH2t-0007Ec-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eH2A-0006wS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eH17-00067N-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eH17-00066Z-00; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pd6mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd6mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.217]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9J00DA7AUGFP@l-daemon>; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:54:16 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml4so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.148]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9J00E60AUGZ9@l-daemon>; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:54:16 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from owlbear.local.shawmail (h68-144-207-94.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.207.94])2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9J00BPLAUEDI@l-daemon>; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:54:15 -0700 (MST) In-reply-to: Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 16 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11224 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11224 Richard Stallman writes: > I believe there is a bug in Mac OS X's implementation of ptys that > causes characters to be lost. > > Could you add a comment to that effect next to the setq? > That will help prevent confusion later. A comment has been there all along. ;; Tell Emacs to use pipes instead of pty's for processes because the ;; latter sometimes lose characters. Pty support is compiled in since ;; ange-ftp will not work without it. (setq process-connection-type nil)) Perhaps I will add an item to etc/PROBLEMS.