small compilation-window-height garbles *compilation*

[Ulrich Neumerkel]

To: address@hidden
Subject: small compilation-window-height garbles *compilation*
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

This bug is not in 21.3.  I reproduced it on Redhat 7.1 and 6.2,
with default fonts and my own fonts.

1) mkdir ~/exemplum # with a single Makefile such that

address@hidden ~]$ cat ~/exemplum/Makefile
it: this

this:
        echo Interesting log information
        for i in '' 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo 
Information nr $$i$$j; done; done 1>&address@hidden ~]$ 

The point of the Makefile is to produce many typical output lines


2) Customize legally the variable compilation-window-height to 15

I.e. such that

address@hidden ~]$ cat ~/.emacs
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(compilation-window-height 15))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )
address@hidden ~]$ 

3) cd ~/exemplum ; emacs-21.3.50 Makefile

M-x compile

The first line of the regular output should be "cd ~/exemplum/".
The second line shoud be "make -k".
However, they are now found at the end!

During compilation it seem that these two lines are always put
dynamically at the end.

When compilation finishes successfully
buffer *compilation* looks like so:

---------- Buffer: *compilation* ----------
echo Interesting log information
Interesting log information
for i in '' 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo 
Information nr $i$j; done; done 1>&2
Information nr 0
...
Information nr 99
cd ~/exemplum/
make -k 

Compilation finished at Tue Nov 25 18:22:29
---------- Buffer: *compilation* ----------


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2003-11-25 on a9.complang.tuwien.ac.at
configured using `configure '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--prefix' 
'/usr/local''

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
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Makefile

Minor modes in effect:
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x c o m p i l e <return> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading disp-table...done
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
Loading tooltip...done
Loading make-mode...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading make-mode...done
Loading compile...done
(No files need saving)
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