From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: comint read-only prompt Date: 19 Aug 2002 19:59:10 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029754912 32670 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2002 11:01:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'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 17gkI8-0008Ul-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:01:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gkjW-0000hc-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:30:06 +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 17gkJC-0007tc-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17gkFr-0007f0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17gkFo-0007ej-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17gkFo-0007ec-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g7JAxH620506; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:59:17 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g7JAxG504298; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:59:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g7JAxF615592; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:59:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g7JAxBs11182; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:59:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 8C77636F2; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:59:11 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Marshall, Simon" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 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:6645 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6645 "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. -Miles -- Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!