Re: ^D is broken in shell-mode

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> The best "doc" I could find so far is the xterm source code, which I
> do not really understand and whose behavior I haven't been able to
> reproduce yet (e.g. it seems not to disable ICANON mode, and it
> doesn't seem to ever send EOF either

Xterm seems like a somewhat different case though -- it acts like a
physical terminal, so just has to send raw keystrokes (including ^D, ^C,
etc), which are interpreted however the slave end of the pty wants, not
"high-level" events like EOF (or interrupt, etc).  So ICANON (etc) may
actually be set by the slave end, xterm itself doesn't have to care.

> even when sending large chunks of data, yet that data doesn't get
> truncated, whereas when I try to to make Emacs send large amounts of
> data in ICANON mode without EOFs, it gets truncated).

Can the data just be sent in chunks, as JanD mentioned?

I think support for higher-level pty control has always been kind of
poor in unix, and it sounds like linux is even worse... :(

-Miles

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