I cannot reproduce this error on 26.1.
I looked at the git revision history that affected shell-command-on-region that affected in recent times, but I couldn't find any.
Thanks.
In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 11, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
of 2019-01-22
Repository revision: 9eaf5e052a802a7b0560f983f2bb786e13ce2488
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'Open Text', version 11.0.11505
System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.8 (Santiago)
Recent messages:
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Mark set
ERROR in parse_header: buffer was ';; This buffer is for te'
error: client: reader got error Success
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules
--prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/master
'--program-transform-name=s/^ctags$/ctags_emacs/' --with-harfbuzz
--with-dumping=unexec 'CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kmodi/stowed/include
-I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native'
'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/stowed/lib -L/home/kmodi/stowed/lib64
-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64''
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB
NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF
XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS GMP
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util
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term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook
help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
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base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
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(symbols 48 20712 1)
(strings 32 30382 2230)
(string-bytes 1 841942)
(vectors 16 15780)
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(floats 8 43 74)
(intervals 56 255 0)
(buffers 992 12)
(heap 1024 25874 879))