Re: .sh_history created with non-printing characters.

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From: Simon Marshall
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 09:59

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Michael> When I first run "M-x shell", a file called ".sh_history" is
Michael> created in my home directory with the following content: "^A^A"
Michael> (no quotes).

This sounds more like your shell (ksh?), since this file should not be
written by Emacs (comint.el) until the shell exits, and by default is not
written at all.

Try the shell (a) without Emacs, and (b) in an Emacs started by "emacs -q".

Si.

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