bug#72426: 29.2.50; comint-pager doesn't affect async-shell-command

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 04:17:11 +0300
> Cc: 72426@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 03/08/2024 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> comint-terminfo-terminal affects async-shell-command, why not this?
> > Ugh!  A mistake, IMNSHO.  But that ship sailed a long time ago, so we
> > cannot fix the mistake.  We can avoid enlarging the mistake, though.
> > 
> >> If the fact that the variable is in comint is the problem, I can rename it 
> >> and move it elsewhere.
> > I don't think functions that are almost primitives should pay
> > attention to application-level features such as this one.
> 
> FWIW async-shell-command's behavior is affected by a bunch of other 
> comint-* variables as well because it uses a major mode which inherits 
> from comint-mode (previously it was shell-mode, now shell-command-mode, 
> but that aspect didn't change).

Yes, and that is baaad!