Comint/shell: what now?

[Jerry James]

I wrote:
> I'm packing the car for my summer of fun in California.  I will not be
> doing any more on the comint/shell update for a few days, at least.
> It's up to you to decide now: keep it, or revert?

I have arrived at my destination.  It looks like I will be able to spare
a little time for XEmacs work this summer.  Still, what do you want?
Should I press ahead with fixing the comint sync, or would you rather
revert?

> In any case, the insert-before-markers bug leaves shell mode crippled on
> XEmacs 21.5.  Somebody needs to revert my changes, fix the
> insert-before-markers bug, or rewrite that part of comint.el to not use
> insert-before-markers.  I'll leave it up to you to decide which action
> to take.  I'll check back in as soon as I can.

I would like to pursue rewriting comint.el to not use
insert-before-markers.  Are there any objections?

We should still fix insert-before-markers, of course.
-- 
Jerry James, Assistant Professor        james at xemacs.org
Computer Science Department             http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University