Emacs cannot sort in shell

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Having from 'xset -q' a list of (via replace-string , -> C-j and  
deleting some spaces):

        Font Path:
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
        /sw/share/ghostscript/fonts/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/msttf/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/efont-unicode/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/TrueType/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/Type1/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/bidi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Indian/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
        Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled

I mark this region of lines starting with / and apply sort-lines on  
it. The result is:

        Font Path:
        
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
        /sw/share/ghostscript/fonts/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/msttf/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/efont-unicode/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/TrueType/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/Type1/
        /sw/lib/X11/fonts/intl/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/bidi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Indian/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc//usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
        Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled

Launching GNU Emacs with -Q gives the same result. (Using GNU Emacs  
21.3.50 exactly nothing happens in *shell* buffer.) Sorting works  
outside the *shell* buffer ...



In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.5.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
of 2006-03-04 on localhost
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '--with- 
xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar22:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/ 
auctex/images:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -faltivec - 
maltivec -mabi=altivec -mcpu=7450 -no-cpp-precomp -fomit-frame- 
pointer -foptimize-register-move -fcprop-registers -frename-registers  
-freorder-blocks -fpeephole -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mpowerpc-gpopt'  
'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I/sw/include/libpng12 -I/sw/lib/pango- 
ft219/include -I/sw/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include - 
I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib - 
L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib - 
L/sw/lib''

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

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

There's no sense in being precise when you don't
even know what you're talking about.
        -- John von Neumann