[Debconf-devel] Bug#399215: probably a misfeature in emacs's shell
Jari Aalto
jari.aalto at cante.net
Wed Jan 10 15:55:25 CET 2007
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
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