From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6800-done@debbugs.gnu.org, David Fox <ddssff@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6800: 23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:36:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ziohomuz.fsf@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvocc41iv1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:01:05 +0200")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> When an input longer than 255 characters is typed into comint (or
>> shell) an EOT character (ascii 4, ^D) is inserted into the string.
>> This can cause an error depending how the sub process handles these
>> extra characters. For example, GHC doesn't like it when an EOT
>> appears inside of a string:
>
> I believe this bug is fixed on the Emacs trunk (to become Emacs-24), but
> the fix may introduce other problems. Apparently nobody knows how to
> fix it right and there is about as much as no documentation at all on
> this part of the behavior of ttys.
IIRC this code is no longer in Emacs. I'll close this bug.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-12 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-05 14:58 bug#6800: 23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string David Fox
2010-09-11 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-12 18:36 ` Alan Third [this message]
2016-08-12 18:40 ` David Fox
2016-08-12 18:43 ` Alan Third
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