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From: Rah Guzar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Ruijie Yu <ruijie@netyu.xyz>, 61602@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61602: [PATCH]: comint-mode redirection
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 09:25:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz362ek0.fsf@zohomail.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ednm3v9v.fsf@gnu.org>


Hi Eli,

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >  This variable is only used if the variable
>> > -`comint-use-prompt-regexp' is non-nil.
>> > +`comint-use-prompt-regexp' is non-nil.  The exception to
>> > +this is redirection.  Many commands including
>> > +`comint-redirect-send-command-to-process' use it as
>> > +`comint-redirect-finished-regexp'.
>>
>> This paragraph sounds a bit weird, but I don't know how to reword it.
>> Maybe someone else can help.
>
> I'm not sure the addition is necessary in the first place.  What is
> its purpose? why is it useful to mention those exceptional cases?

I think it is useful for those writing a comint derived mode who might
be tempted to not set 'comint-prompt-regexp' since it is going to be
unused by default. Redirection is an important enough facility in
my opinion for this to be pointed out.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-12  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-18 11:26 bug#61602: 29.0.60; comint-mode redirection Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-09 10:04 ` Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-11 17:45 ` bug#61602: [PATCH]: " Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-11 18:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 18:35     ` Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-12  5:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12  2:16   ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-12  6:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12  6:58       ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-12  7:54         ` Andreas Schwab
2023-05-12  7:25       ` Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-05-12  7:11     ` Rah Guzar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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