compiler-mode should inherit shell-mode

compiler-mode should inherit shell-mode

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Some Makefiles involve interactive input.  Therefore, it would be nice
if the  compilation mode  would inherit from  the shell-mode  and when
there is input expected, it would allow user to enter it...

Notably, some  compilation or installation targets  involve sudo, then
asking for a password...


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Re: compiler-mode should inherit shell-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    Some Makefiles involve interactive input.  Therefore, it would be nice
    if the  compilation mode  would inherit from  the shell-mode  and when
    there is input expected, it would allow user to enter it...

This would be a good thing, but not as easy as it sounds.  One
complication is that some of the commands of Compilation mode would
have to be changed.

Re: compiler-mode should inherit shell-mode

[Kevin Rodgers]

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Some Makefiles involve interactive input.  Therefore, it would be nice
> if the  compilation mode  would inherit from  the shell-mode  and when
> there is input expected, it would allow user to enter it...


Wouldn't comint-mode be adequate?  Ah, but it's a major mode.  Perhaps
compilation-mode ought to be a derived mode -- is that what you mean
by "inherit from" (define-derived-mode)?


> Notably, some  compilation or installation targets  involve sudo, then
> asking for a password...

(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)


should work in *compilation* buffers as well.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers