Comint/shell: what now?

[Jerry James]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>     Jerry> I have arrived at my destination.  It looks like I will be
>     Jerry> able to spare a little time for XEmacs work this summer.
>     Jerry> Still, what do you want?  Should I press ahead with fixing
>     Jerry> the comint sync, or would you rather revert?
>
> I think you should try to fix the comint sync.  It's twisted fate that
> you didn't catch these bugs before the package got into CVS, but these
> things happen.  Unless we're going to abandon GNU compatibility
> entirely for 22.0, now is a good time to get started on synching.  We
> know there's gonna be breakage, I'm sorry that this particular burden
> fell on you at this point in time.

It isn't twisted fate so much as me rushing to try to get stuff done
before leaving for the summer.  If I had taken my time and been more
careful ... well, it still wouldn't be in CVS then.  As for the burden
falling on me, well, it's self-inflicted. :-)

>     Jerry> I would like to pursue rewriting comint.el to not use
>     Jerry> insert-before-markers.  Are there any objections?
>
> No; +1 from me.

Great.  I think that's the best choice.

>     Jerry> We should still fix insert-before-markers, of course.
>
> Of course!  But I did a little digging (unraveling back to the
> do_marker_adjustment function in insdel.c, which IIRC is the same in
> 21.4 and 21.5.27), and it's not obvious how to do that.

Bummer.
-- 
Jerry James, Assistant Professor        james at xemacs.org
Computer Science Department             http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University