Variable: comint-ptyp

comint-ptyp is a variable defined in comint.el.gz.

Value

t

Documentation

Non-nil if communications via pty; false if by pipe. Buffer local.

This is to work around a bug in Emacs process signaling.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/comint.el.gz
;; Fixme: Is this still relevant?
(defvar comint-ptyp t
  "Non-nil if communications via pty; false if by pipe.  Buffer local.
This is to work around a bug in Emacs process signaling.")