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Article #189644Re: Long lines to shell under emacs
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 20:37
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 20:37
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In article <MURPHY.90Dec20124036@lam.dccs.upenn.edu> murphy@dccs.upenn.edu writes:
>I disagree. The shell interface in EMACS has some responsibility to
>do something reasonable with long lines.
Why does Emacs have more responsibility in this regard than the terminal
driver?
Also, how is Emacs supposed to know the input limit of whatever program
happens to be reading from the shell mode pty? The shell isn't the only
program that takes input from that stream, and different programs have
different limits. Different shells may have different limits (personally,
I can't think of a good reason why a shell should have any limit below the
maximum size of a malloc'ed string).
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,3b1a99979e397868 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-12-20 12:37:46 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Long lines to shell under emacs Message-ID: <1990Dec20.203746.3940@Think.COM> Date: 20 Dec 90 20:37:46 GMT References: <9012131418.AP02422@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> <MURPHY.90Dec20124036@lam.dccs.upenn.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 18