Re: Emacs 21.3.50.1 (CVS sources) MacOS X tex-mode bug

[Stefan Monnier]

> --- lisp/term/mac-win.el        30 Dec 2004 02:04:31 -0000      1.30
> +++ lisp/term/mac-win.el        17 Jan 2005 17:40:12 -0000
> @@ -1696,8 +1696,9 @@

>   ;; Tell Emacs to use pipes instead of pty's for processes because the
>   ;; latter sometimes lose characters.  Pty support is compiled in since
> -;; ange-ftp will not work without it.
> -(setq process-connection-type nil)
> +;; ange-ftp will not work without it.  Fixed with darwin 7 (OS X 10.3).
> +(setq process-connection-type
> +      (not (string-match "-darwin[0-6]\\." system-configuration)))

>   ;; Assume that fonts are always scalable on the Mac.  This sometimes
>   ;; results in characters with jagged edges.  However, without it,

BTW, I think I've never noticed the tex-shell problem on my Mac because
I build it for X11 so mac-win.el is not loaded (and thus
process-connection-type stays t).

Shouldn't the process-connection-type be set somewhere else than in
mac-win.el.


        Stefan