From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character mode for comint? Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:36:05 +0200 Message-ID: <874nyrir1m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mxckp2vs.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3dgp2hb.fsf@gmail.com> <87r51wm3jw.fsf@gmail.com> <87k47om2e5.fsf@gmail.com> <87ty6rlvgn.fsf@gmail.com> <87fwiblsng.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319914551 16643 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2011 18:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:55:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 20:55:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4J-0004wQ-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4I-0003U6-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4G-0003Tq-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4F-00052i-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4F-00052a-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKE4C-0004uG-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from cab14-1-88-177-9-245.fbx.proxad.net ([88.177.9.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by cab14-1-88-177-9-245.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:55:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cab14-1-88-177-9-245.fbx.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145775 Archived-At: 29/10/11 18:17, Andreas Schwab > Antoine Levitt writes: > >> Because then you don't benefit from the emacs interaction features of >> the various python modes, like sending the current >> buffer/region/defun. If your question is "why are these features >> implemented with comint rather than term-mode", I have no clue. > > Because you need to have control over the input in order to do that. > You cannot have them when the underlying process is doing the input > editing. > > Andreas. Why not? You can certainly send stuff to a terminal by just copy/pasting it and that works fine.