On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:46 +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote: > > Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gentlemen, don't let M-x shell hide the facts, > > $ LC_ALL=C LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C emacs -Q > > M-x shell > > $ echo -e 'bla\r ' #hides output! > > What is the value of selective-display in the M-x shell buffer?
I think what's going on here is that when Emacs sees a carriage return character, it moves the cursor back to the beginning of the line without moving down a line. Lots of programs rely on this behaviour to get 'animated' displays (see wget, apt-get, etc). For example, run the following to see an 'animated' time display on a single line: while :; do date | tr \\012 \\015; sleep 1; done Chris. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
