Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > $ echo -e 'bla\r ' #hides output! > > 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).
Yes. IOW, it's a feature, not a bug. The way comint does it is not strictly the same as the way a real terminal does it, so there are occasionally different results, but it's generally close enough to make such programs display correctly in comint. -Miles -- Run away! Run away! _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
