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[Glynn Clements]

Jerry James wrote:

> > The bug does not occur if `comint-inhibit-carriage-motion' is not
> > `nil'.  And this value is not output by `report-emacs-bug'.
> >
> > The `comint' version is upstream one.
> 
> This is a feature, not a bug.  As the Emacs NEWS file explains it:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *** Comint now by default interprets some carriage-control characters.
> Comint now removes CRs from CR LF sequences, and treats single CRs and
> BSs in the output in a way similar to a terminal (by deleting to the
> beginning of the line, or deleting the previous character,
> respectively).  This is achieved by adding `comint-carriage-motion' to
> the `comint-output-filter-functions' hook by default.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ick. It should be up to the user to add comint-carriage-motion, IMHO.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>