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In article <9012131418.AP02422@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> muewi@oz.informatik.uni-bremen.de (Wilhelm Mueller) writes:

   This is *NOT* a problem of emacs--I use SunOS 4.0.3 on a 3/80 and the
   shell stops working when a command line exceeds 255 characters, no
   matter if I use an emacs shell, a command tool, a shell tool or a
   plain terminal. So it might be difficult to correct that in emacs...

    - Wilhelm

I disagree.  The shell interface in EMACS has some responsibility to
do something reasonable with long lines.

If the shell that emacs starts up has a limit of X characters per
input line, then emacs might detect when the user wants to submit a
line longer than X characters and try to insert a continuation
character ('\' for csh) and end-of-line in an appropriate place
automatically.

At the very LEAST, emacs should print a useful error message when I
try to submit a line longer than X characters to the shell, rather
than blindly handing it over to the shell.

If emacs could somehow hint to me that I need to break my lines up
into several lines and add \ to the end of each line except the last
one, it would be a great help.


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--lam

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