Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

Андрей Забавников zabavnikov@gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 21:19:00 GMT 2013


But despite my critics i of course appreciate very much even the fact
that you try to figure out what the problem is. For me as an almost
complete Emacs newbie that task would not be accomplishable.

2013/1/28 Андрей Забавников <zabavnikov@gmail.com>:
> For exmple, bash completion is absent in line-mode, right ?
>
> 2013/1/28 Андрей Забавников <zabavnikov@gmail.com>:
>> Oh, sorry for empty message ... :)
>>
>> Well, putting terminal in line mode is almost as good as starting just
>> `M-x shell`, am I right ? And by good i mean bad and incovenient. It
>> is after all the whole purpose of `M-x term` to work exactly like
>> terminal not something text editor-like. And line-mode kills that
>> feature, right ? (And here i'm really asking, because it's been a
>> while since i was working in Emacs last time).
>>
>> 2013/1/28 Андрей Забавников <zabavnikov@gmail.com>:
>>> 2013/1/28 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>:
>>>> On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_
>>>>> is space). Hitting enter tells no such command `a`, so the deletion
>>>>> has effect but the the terminal is not updated correctly. Likewise for
>>>>> `home` and `end` buttons.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can reproduce this, but I don't know why it's happening.  I'll try to look
>>>> into it.  As a workaround, put the terminal in line-mode (`C-c C-j').
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>
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