[Debconf-devel] Bug#399215: probably a misfeature in emacs's shell

[Jari Aalto]

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> writes:

> In the readline frontend, debconf always displays choices first, and
> only then prompts for input. If emacs choses to for some reason display
> the prompt first, that seems like it would be a bug in emacs.
>
> It's a bit difficult to know for sure, since you don't provide any details
> about what version of emacs you're using, what perl readline modules you have
> installed, etc. 

ii  emacs-goodies-el  26.9-1            Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs21           21.4a+1-3         The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-commo 21.4a+1-3         The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture depend
ii  emacs21-common    21.4a+1-3         The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture indepe
ii  emacs21-el        21.4a+1-3         GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
ii  emacsen-common    1.4.17            Common facilities for all emacsen
ic  libreadline4      4.3-18            GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libra
ii  libreadline5      5.2-2             GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libra
ii  libreadline5-dev  5.2-2             GNU readline and history libraries, development fi
ii  libterm-readline- 1.16-2            Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Librar
ii  readline-common   5.2-2             GNU readline and history libraries, common files

> Also, I can't really fathom why you'd want to use the readline
> frontend inside emacs; the teletype frontend seems better suited to it.

copy/cut/paste and moving pieces and commands arund with macros etc.
It's quite obvious environment.

Jari