bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'

[Glenn Morris]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 04/07/2016 08:18 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>> I can think of several possibilities. In particular, the EMACS=t behaviour
>> of bash should also be replicable with bash -o emacs.
> I expect that this problem affects programs other than bash. For
> example, tcsh 6.19.00 (the latest version of the first other shell
> that I checked) tests whether EMACS is "t".

IMO this issue is effectively going to be impossible to change.
Eg is there any sign of tcsh adapting?
How long for that change to make it into the long-term stable release of
all major distributions?
How many other things need similar changes?
Just resign yourself to the fact that EMACS has a not-very useful value
inside comint.