Re: Aqua: line editing in shell mode broken

[Steve Wainstead]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 11:46 AM, Andrew Choi wrote:

> Steve Wainstead <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > When in shell mode, I can edit lines from a program's output, but
> > the start of line/end of line somehow become reset.
> >
> > For example, I run the 'find' command on a directory tree, and a
> > series of filenames are printed. I arrow up to one, type 'ls -l ' at
> > the start of line, but now the end of the line is where the cursor is
> > instead of at the end of the file name. When I hit RET I get a
> > listing of the current directory.
> >
> > [...]
>
> This is how the shell mode in Emacs behaves on all platforms.  I don't
> know if it is a bug.

For both Emacs.app and /usr/local/bin/emacs, the result is a listing of 
the curent workign directory; with /usr/bin/emacs (Apple's version) it 
lists the file:

[voluminous output from 'find . -name \*.pm' truncated]
./WAIT/Client.pm
./WWW/RobotRules/AnyDBM_File.pm
ls -l ./WWW/RobotRules.pm    <------------ arrow up, control-a, type 
'ls -l '
./XML/Simple.pm
[ketelone Perl]$ ls -l ./WWW/RobotRules.pm
-r--r--r--  1 root  admin  9901 Aug 17 23:32 ./WWW/RobotRules.pm

I have used Emacs on gnu/linux for years, and this has always been the 
behavior. It's also the behavior on the build on Solaris we have here:


[evw-1 swain]$ pwd
/export/home/swain
[evw-1 swain]$ find . -name \*.gz
./software/elisp-manual-21-2.8.tar.gz
./software/emacs-21.2.tar.gz
./software/emacs-lisp-intro-2.04.tar.gz
./software/leim-21.2.tar.gz
./software/cvs-1.11.2.tar.gz
./software/tcl8.4.1-src.tar.gz
./software/expect.tar.gz
./software/php-4.2.3.tar.gz
./software/apache_1.3.27.tar.gz
./software/apache_1.3.27/src/ApacheNW.mcp.gz
./software/bind-src.tar.gz
./software/mysql-3.23.52-sun-solaris2.8-sparc.tar.gz
./software/openssl-0.9.6b.tar.gz
./software/db-4.1.24.tar.gz
./software/cyrus-sasl-1.5.28.tar.gz
ls -l ./software/DB2-0.996.tar.gz
./software/resin-2.1.6.tar.gz
[evw-1 swain]$ ls -l ./software/DB2-0.996.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 swain    sysadmin    17056 Dec  5 17:15 
./software/DB2-0.996.tar\
.gz
[evw-1 swain]$

(this is copied out of the output in shell mode.)

cheer,
~swain