Re: Control-D in grep output

[Kevin Rodgers]

Perry Smith wrote:
> I am running emacs 22.1.1 on AIX 5.3.  When I do "grep" from inside 
> emacs the very first line has an extra ^D (control-D, one character).
>
> I've moved my .kshrc, .profile, .bashrc, and .bash_profile files off to 
> the side thinking that they somehow were introducing the problem but 
> that does not make a difference.
>
> I set debug-on-entry on compilation-start.  When I step through it via 
> the debugger, if I step through it slowly, I do not have the issue.  If 
> I just step a few steps in and then hit continue, I have the problem.
>
> Anyone have some suggestions of what this could be or how to debug it?

1. Check whether you see the same thing when you run grep from a shell
started with M-x shell.

2. When you debug compilation-start, does the problem occur before or
after compilation-mode has run?

3. Try debugging compilation-filter.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA