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

[Steven Tamm]

The problem only applied to the carbon build, I believe.  The pty's 
weren't setup correctly when launching from a bundle.  My recollection 
is fuzzy, so it could be something else.

-Steven

On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > --- 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