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Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???



"Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many
> of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured
> I'd give it one more go.
> 
> This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not
> reachable for testing, but...
> 
> On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing
> ^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands.
> 
> The word I have is:
> 
>     The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell within emacs when I
>     give a shell command like "ls -lt".  Other commands, like "df" do
>     not contain ^M's.
> 
> I'd like to point out that I cannot reproduce these on other Slink or
> Potato systems, even with the person in question's .emacs file.

i think this is because these commands (ls) output return carriages i
think.

i notice something similar on xemacs21.. maybe you can find more help
if you got to channel #emacs on irc.debian.org with an irc client.



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