From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: comint read-only prompt Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:40:48 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208191540.g7JFemV13663@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029771713 11306 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2002 15:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Marshall, Simon" , "'Emacs Developers'" , "'jdsmith@as.arizona.edu'" Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gof0-0002vt-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:41:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gp6U-0007Fk-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17gog5-0003Ys-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17goeK-0003UH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17goeI-0003U5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17goeI-0003U0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7JFemV13663; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:40:48 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Miles Bader Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6649 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6649 > "Marshall, Simon" writes: > > One missing feature of comint that I'd always pined for was the ability > > to make the most recent prompt (IDL> in my case) read-only. > > > > Would you guys be interested in this type of functionality? > > Yup. I was planning to do something like this, but forgot about it. > > It's a shame that `read-only' on an overlay doesn't work, though; that > would have made a very nice tidy solution. Doesn't the latest trunk code of comint use text-properties now ? Stefan