22.1.50;C-u M-x shell: no longer uses specified buffer:

[raman]

Note the interactive form as it appears in M-x shell --- it ends
up 
dropping the value of  `buffer' provided by the user.

Consequence:

Hit C-u M-x shell ret foo ret
and you end up back in the *shell* buffer, not in a shell buffer
call    foo 


(interactive
   (list
    (and current-prefix-arg
         (read-buffer "Shell buffer: "
                      (generate-new-buffer-name "*shell*"))
         (file-remote-p default-directory)
         ;; It must be possible to declare a local default-directory.
         (setq default-directory
               (expand-file-name
                (read-file-name
                 "Default directory: " default-directory default-directory
                 t nil 'file-directory-p))))))


In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-08-27 on labrador
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-gtk' '--with-gpm' 
'--with-rsvg' '--with-png' '--with-jpeg' '--with-gif''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  t-mouse-mode: t
  erc-track-minor-mode: t
  jabber-activity-mode: t
  dynamic-completion-mode: t
  dired-omit-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Recent input:
C-e m ESC > C-x C-e ESC [ 2 3 ~ c d RET c d SPC m p 
a C-c C-u c d SPC . i n v DEL c TAB b i TAB C-c C-u 
c d RET c d SPC . b i TAB i TAB RET m v SPC J TAB SPC 
~ / m p TAB a u TAB j a n e - a u s t i n RET c d RET 
c d SPC m p TAB a u TAB j a n TAB RET m v SPC J TAB 
B TAB SPC ~ / m p TAB a u TAB ESC DEL ESC DEL o l TAB 
b b TAB c l a s s TAB p r i d e - a n d - p r e j u 
d i c e RET ESC > c d RET C-e t a t q RET C-p ESC > 
ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u TAB RET

Recent messages:
Completing file name...
Completed
Completing file name...
Completed
Completing file name...
Completed
Completing file name...
Completed
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-- 
Best Regards,
--raman

      
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