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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
	21162@debbugs.gnu.org, "John W. Eaton" <jwe@degreesofgray.org>,
	21150@debbugs.gnu.org, Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at,
	Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org>
Subject: bug#21150: 24.5; octave-inf mode does not need --no-line-editing
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:58:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tump6r1g.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ZL6Zl-0002nR-TE@tucano.isti.cnr.it> ("Francesco Potortì"'s message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:26:01 +0200")

Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:

> -(defcustom inferior-octave-startup-args '("-i" "--no-line-editing")
> +(defcustom inferior-octave-startup-args '("-i")

[...]

Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:

> As a conclusion of my observations above:
>
> A. if --no-line-editing was introduce because of the Emacs inferior
>    Octave mode
>
> B. if it is reasonable to assume that --no-line-editing is not used by
>    any other application
>
> C. if there is a way to leave readline enabled, but disable tab expansion
>
> then one can change the --no-line-editing behaviour to just disable tab
> expansion.
>
> Or, if only C is certainly true, one can deprecate and undocument
> --no-line-editing and add a separate option --disable-tab-expansion for
> use in Emacs inferior Octave mode.

I'm going through old bug reports, and after skimming this one, I'm not
quite sure what the conclusions are.  Should the --no-line-editing value
be removed from the options?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-30 17:22 bug#21162: adapting octave-inf.el to Octave 4 Francesco Potortì
2015-07-31  6:47 ` Glenn Morris
2015-07-31  9:26   ` Francesco Potortì
2015-07-31 15:39     ` Glenn Morris
2015-08-06 13:15       ` Francesco Potortì
2021-05-26 22:58     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-08 13:09       ` bug#21162: bug#21150: 24.5; octave-inf mode does not need --no-line-editing Francesco Potortì
2021-06-09  9:35         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-28 13:40 Francesco Potortì

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