From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Device 0 is not a termcap terminal device Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20081003100758.GA1762@muc.de> <200810031625.m93GPZKn023230@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <20090901200826.GA2657@muc.de> <20090901222754.GA5211@muc.de> <20090901230212.GB5211@muc.de> <20090902095728.GB2550@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251886299 19660 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2009 10:11:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 12:11:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MimoI-0001kP-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53523 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MimoH-0001Jm-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MimoA-0001IT-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mimo5-0001Fd-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50507 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mimo5-0001FV-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10788) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mimo4-0005vO-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n82ABBxF006884; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from hase.home (vpn-10-100.str.redhat.com [10.32.10.100]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n82AB400001737; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:11:06 -0400 X-Yow: I always wanted a NOSE JOB!! In-Reply-To: <20090902095728.GB2550@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:57:28 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.18 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114986 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > When I tried `princ' in place of `send-string-to-terminal', the > displaying of these lines was broken. Typically, the line would look > something like: > > arg -1 ntax) > > , with the cursor jumping madly over it, the actual contents being > updated every 2 or 3 seconds. This is on a Linux virtual terminal. So the issue seems to be that stdout is line buffered and there is no way to flush the output beyond that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."