# HG changeset patch # User Miles Bader # Date 991124959 0 # Node ID f7113f2126e9e5389871834a6c8e428f8aefa97d # Parent 2773c29e66d00b1433fd47b7b1774178ae89e717 Update the entry for `comint-carriage-motion' (ne `comint-cr-magic'). diff -r 2773c29e66d0 -r f7113f2126e9 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Tue May 29 08:23:51 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Tue May 29 08:29:19 2001 +0000 @@ -963,11 +963,12 @@ These changes generally affect all modes derived from comint mode, which include shell-mode, gdb-mode, scheme-interaction-mode, etc. -*** Comint now by default removes CRs from CR LF sequences. Comint -now treats single CRs in the output in a way similar to a terminal, by -deleting everything to the beginning of the line. This is achieved by -adding `comint-cr-magic' to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions' by -default. +*** Comint now by default interprets some carriage-control characters. +Comint now removes CRs from CR LF sequences, and treats single CRs and +BSs in the output in a way similar to a terminal (by deleting to the +beginning of the line, or deleting the previous character, +respectively). This is achieved by adding `comint-carriage-motion' to +the `comint-output-filter-functions' hook by default. *** By default, comint no longer uses the variable `comint-prompt-regexp' to distinguish prompts from user-input. Instead, it notices which