Re: term.el (term-emulate-terminal)

[Harry Kuiper]

Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org> writes:

> >>>>> In <8962-Sat13Apr2002183653+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> 
> >>>>> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> > > I looked at the diffs between term.el in Emacs-21.1 and Emacs-21.2
> > > using these I backed out the change Eli Zaretskii made at 2002-02-03
> > > (see below, something about matching terminal prompt).  After that
> > > term works OK again for me.
> 
> > Actually, this change was suggested by Daiki Ueno; I was asked
> > (probably by Richard Stallman) to install it.
> 
> > The bug which the change was supposed to fix is explained here:
> 
> >   http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-January/010123.html
> 
> I guess it is the bug introduced by my patch, if the infloop is caused
> by (string-match "\r?$" "").  The patch should be:
> 
> > > !                             (let ((end (string-match "\r?\n" str i)))
> 
> rather than:
> 
> > > !                             (let ((end (string-match "\r?$" str i)))
> 

Daiko,

Sorry but this brings back my problem again. :-(

I'm not familiar with elisp programming nor terminal emulation so I
don't really know how to help.  What is the regexp supposed to match?

Greetings,
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Harry Kuiper                 hkuiper@xs4all.nl
Haarlem, The Netherlands