[erlang-questions] user_drv cannot properly print new lines

[José Valim]

More info:

Running on Mac OS Snow Leopard, Erlang R15B or R15B01.

user_drv:start() is spawning user:start() and not 'tty -c -e'.


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José Valim
www.plataformatec.com.br
Founder and Lead Developer
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM, José Valim <jose.valim@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> If I run the following command:
>
> $ erl -noinput -s user_drv
>
>
> And then try to send any io message to the user process, the message
> appears skewed:
>
> 1> io:format(user, "foo\nbar\nbaz", []).
>
> foo
>    bar
>       bazok
>
>
> However, sending the message to io makes it appear correctly:
>
> 2> io:format(standard_io, "foo\nbar\nbaz", []).
> foo
> bar
> bazok
>
>
> This becomes a major problem when printing error logger messages to tty,
> which become completely unreadable.
>
> I have found out this issue when starting an Elixir shell with user_drv.
> The issue also appears with LFE and any other time user_drv is started
> manually.
>
> Does anyone know a fix to this problem or how I could debug it further?
>
> *
> José Valim
> www.plataformatec.com.br
> Founder and Lead Developer
> *
>
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