🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Dec18.203302.26023@sunrise.com> samborn@sunrise.com (Kevin Samborn) writes:

	   Is it possible to still gain the benefits of running your
   sub-processes under Shell Mode, and still use the readline library?
   Specifically, I would like to run GDB under 18.55, and gain the
   benefits of having emacs deal with the source files.  However, I would
   still like to use GDB's readline library for inputting at the command
   line.  I know that under emacs there are many more editing
   capabilities, but I really like some of readline's functions, like the
   visual history (ctrl-p & ctrl-n).

You could run the subprocess inside a terminal-emulator window.  However,
I don't think you want to do this.  Instead, you should use the "comint"
package from CMU.  I believe it provides all the functionality of the
readline library, and since it is in elisp, it is of course easily
extended.  Basically, comint is a drop-in replacement for Shell Mode.

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Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>