Re: report-bug is also broken in emacs

[Jude DaShiell]

There is a script command in Linux.  When it works, it captures 
everything that goes to stdin stdout and stderr and saves that in a file 
usually called typescript.  Anything happening on a linux terminal 
visible to the user and what goes to stdout gets put in the typescript 
file.  The man script command should explain better than I'm doing here 
for you.

On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:41:21
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: report-bug is also broken in emacs
>
> Please keep help-gnu-emacs in Cc.
>
> On 07/05/2015 10:25 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > If you want to see what's going on,
> > http://www.panix.com/~jdashiel/typescript
> > has that information.
>
> Sorry, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at. The page contains a 
> lot of text (some of it looking Emacs-y), as well as lots of unreadable 
> control characters.
>
> Again, have you tried reproducing the problem starting with 'emacs -Q'?
>
> And what typescript are you referring to here? I only know of a programming 
> language with that name, one that compiles to JavaScript.
>
> > The last word I keyed in on the description area
> > just after subject: was again.  If report-emacs-bug did capture it, the
> > way the display was showing things it gave me the impression only one
> > line had been captured with no lines beyond the first.  The subject:
> > line was on the last line of my emacs display area too.  None of this
> > may be a bug, and just appear like a bug due to display placement of
> > elements of the report.
>
> I don't understand this paragraph.
>
> > I will be interested to find out if that's the
> > case and would also like to know what the maximum number of lines is for
> > that bug description area too.
>
> There's no maximum number of lines. After you type in the subject, Emacs 
> opens a Message buffer, where you can type as long a report as you like.

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