Bug#1879: Emacs shell mode weirdness - looks like C code bug
CD Rasmussen writes:
> Ian, I think the problem might be local to your system. I'm running a
> pretty virgin system that was recently built from scratch and I can
> run that command in emacs with no problem.
Perhaps it's something to do with my environment ? A copy is below.
> Was there anything enlightening in the *Messages* buffer?
> The last 2 lines should just say:
> Loading shell...
> Loading shell...done
They do. There doesn't seem to be anything out of place.
> Try:
> M-x set-variable
> debug-on-error
> t
> M-x shell
It doesn't produce an error, so debug-on-error doesn't help much ...
> Anything interesting, like permission problems or a lower level call
> that you can try manually yo get closer to the problem?
Possibly. Who's the Emacs maintainer ? There's a lot of lispish
grovelling to be done here, I think.
Ian.
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