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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP
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Subject: GNU Emacs - loadst - Modeline garbaged until next update.
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 10:53:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 10:53:43 1987
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blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
> Sigh. I remember this problem on an old Gosling Emacs running on BSD4.1 four
> years ago. What happens is that while you're in the subshell, loadst is
> still spitting out the time and statistics. When you return to Emacs, the
> first time that sub-process is read from, you get all of the time and load
> information loadst has been spitting out, which is subsequently displayed in
> the mode line. Hence, lots of strange numbers before the correct time and
> load.

Well, there's code in GNU to do this (I don't know if it works, but I
haven't caught it out yet...) -- see display-time-filter in time.el.

Dale
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