Re: comint history question

[unfrostedpoptart]

On Apr 27, 5:09 am, tyler <tyler.sm...@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> writes:
> > Hi.
>
> > I use shell-mode for almost all my command shells. I don't understand
> > why the comint history (e.g. comint-previous-matching-input) doesn't
> > keep one and two-character commands. I frequently mess myself up by
> > hitting ctl-up ret to rerun the last command and instead run a
> > different command because the last one was only two characters (e.g.
> > ls).
>
> > I'm actually running xemacs, but I don't that's an issue here.  How to
> > I get comint history to use all commands?
>
> I'm running Gnu Emacs, 23.0.60.1, and my comint history does include two
> letter commands, so I think it is a Xemacs issue.
>

Interesting. I tried emacs (21.3.1) also and see that comint-input-
filter doesn't have the string length part. I'm trying to figure out
who, in the xemacs camp, added this.  Anyone know (adding
comp.emacs.xemacs)?

 David