Re: ^M in compilation buffers

[Sam Steingold]

Sam Steingold wrote:
> omake prints progress bar using the usual ^M terminal trick.
> last week it was parsed nicely by emacs, i.e., the progress bar was 
> updated in-place and, eventually, overwritten (by the last omake message).
> today, the freshly compiled cvs head emacs does not do that: the ^M 
> character is inserted into the *compilation* buffer as is (instead of 
> being interpreted as C-a C-k):
> [===                   ] 01358 / 11812^M [======                ] 02995 
> / 11837^M [======                ] 03039 / 11837^M 
> [======                ] 03244 / 11849^M [======                ] 03337 
> / 11849^M [======                ] 03428 / 11849^M 
> [======                ] 03502 / 11849^M [=======  ] 03598 / 11849^M 
> [=======               ] 03659 / 11849^M [=======      ] 03692 / ....

this patch fixes *compilation*:



--- compile.el.~1.485.~ 2009-01-05 16:47:34.000000000 -0500
+++ compile.el  2009-02-17 11:31:48.001949000 -0500
@@ -1739,6 +1739,8 @@ Just inserts the text, and runs `compila
               ;; point at `process-mark' scroll along with the output, but we
               ;; now use window-point-insertion-type instead.
               (insert string)
+              (unless comint-inhibit-carriage-motion
+                (comint-carriage-motion (process-mark proc) (point)))
               (set-marker (process-mark proc) (point))
               (run-hooks 'compilation-filter-hook))
           (goto-char pos))))))


alas, this cannot be done from within compilation-filter-hook because 
(process-mark proc) is overwritten before compilation-filter-hook is called.
(also, comint.el calls comint-carriage-motion from comint-output-filter, not a 
hook).