in reply to problem: emacs interactive shell and cpan
I am not sure if I understand you right, but for a similar problem I used this little snippet for XEmacs:
;; stop ^M from appearing in shell window (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'shell-strip-ctrl-m nil t)
Christian Lemburg
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