From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eshell - `Text is read-only`
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:40:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mwjjmj3h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d76e2299-abc0-4404-b8ba-797fb3894dfc@googlegroups.com> (deech's message of "Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:47:55 -0800 (PST)")
deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all, I've run into the dreaded `Text is read-only` bug which stops
> eshell from closing and Emacs from exiting. I got this in a previous
> version of Emacs and fixed it with the following snippet:
> (setq eshell-prompt-function
> (lambda ()
> (concat (eshell/pwd) "\n$"))
> eshell-prompt-regexp (concat "^" (regexp-quote "$")))
I just hit the problem today. I'd say it occurs once a month at the
most. My prompt is a two line version. It looks like this:
2013-12-29 22:28 ~/src/gvhperls
$
I don't think it is due to the prompt. FWIW, here's my
eshell-prompt-function, which I shamelesly based on snippets collected
on the net:
(setq eshell-prompt-function
(lambda ()
(let ((prompt (eshell/pwd))
(now (format-time-string "\n%Y-%m-%d %H:%M " (current-time)))
(home-dir (expand-file-name "~")))
;; get rid of the nasty backslashes
(while (string-match "\\\\" home-dir)
(setq home-dir (replace-match "/" nil t home-dir)))
;; match home-dir at the begining of the line
;; be careful not to match `/users/foo.old' if $HOME is `/users/foo'
(if (string-match
(concat "^\\(" home-dir "\\)\\(/.*\\)?$")
prompt)
(setq prompt (replace-match
(if (and (match-string 2))
"~\\2"
"~")
nil
nil
prompt
0)))
;; return the prompt
;; -tack on $ or # depending on user id
(concat now prompt
(if (= (user-uid) 0) "\n# " "\n$ ")))))
Although it does not happen frequently, I sure would like to get it
solved. There's only one solution afaik, and that's just killing emacs,
as in `kill -9 emacs_pid`. This is drastic, but the only way I know to
get rid of the buffer :(
Any suggestion and/or help would be really appreciated!
TIA, and a happy and healthy new-year to you all :)
Guido
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-29 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-29 18:47 Eshell - `Text is read-only` deech
2013-12-29 21:40 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
2013-12-29 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-30 7:50 ` Guido Van Hoecke
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