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From: gold@sgi.com (Michael Gold)
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Subject: Re: staunching csh echoing under emacs on the Iris
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.222126.16524@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:21:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.235228.1140@news.arc.nasa.gov> ceb@krypton.arc.nasa.gov writes:
>Running 3.3.2, when I run a subsidiary csh under GNUemacs, in contrast to
>most every other Unix I've seen, the csh echoes input to it.  In concert with 
>Emacs, this leads to a doubling of input lines.
>

Ahh, yes, I found this one too.  It turns out that if you set filec
it overrides "stty -echo".  The workaround I use in my .cshrc follows:

# Only set filec if not in emacs
if (! $?EMACS) then
    set filec
endif

Since emacs is kind enough to set this variable for you.


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