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bug#6482: ^M zaps results
From: |
Geoff Gole |
Subject: |
bug#6482: ^M zaps results |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:29:21 +0800 |
>
> All I know is for those tests of mine, at most there was only a split
> second where we could see the thousands of characters. Whereas outside
> of emacs in bash in xterm, there they were left pleasingly sitting on
> the screen.
>
No, what the xterm showed you was junk with part of the text
overwritten because of the ^M. You just didn't notice because the
overwritten text didn't happen to be the bit you were interested in.
You can't expect to cleanly view text that contains control characters
at a shell prompt. Pipe it to less or something.