M-. can insert a corrupted value

[adavies42]

sometimes emacs mode's M-. will insert an altered version of the last word of the previous command—generally some characters are missing from middle of the word

i don't have a repro yet, but this tends to happen with very long words (e.g. i start by doing ls on a file with an extremely long path, and then try to read it with cat <M-.>, but the path that's inserted isn't the same one as used in the ls)

i'm pretty sure, but not absolutely positive, that this can happen in (the RHEL9 build of) 93u+m 1.0.6; it definitely happens in stock 93u

[McDutchie]

There have been a lot of fixes to emacs.c since 1.0.6. Please try the current 1.0 branch code, as follows:

git clone --depth=1 -b 1.0 https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
cd ksh
bin/package make -j3
bin/package use

That will put you in a current 1.0 branch ksh testing environment. Please try to reproduce the problem there and let me know the results. I've not been able to reproduce it myself but I haven't had time yet to do a lot of testing.