"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many > of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured > I'd give it one more go. > > This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not > reachable for testing, but... > > On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing > ^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands. > > The word I have is: > > The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell within emacs when I > give a shell command like "ls -lt". Other commands, like "df" do > not contain ^M's. > > I'd like to point out that I cannot reproduce these on other Slink or > Potato systems, even with the person in question's .emacs file.
i think this is because these commands (ls) output return carriages i think. i notice something similar on xemacs21.. maybe you can find more help if you got to channel #emacs on irc.debian.org with an irc client.
