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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: "Fabián E. Gallina" <fgallina@gnu.org>,
	"Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6e788ef: ; etc/PROBLEMS: Explain about the python+libedit problem (Bug#25753).
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:20:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk288qv8o.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170301225512.1A71E262AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed,  1 Mar 2017 17:55:11 -0500 (EST)")

> +*** In Inferior Python mode, input is echoed and native completion doesn't work.
> +<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25753>
> +
> +This happens when python uses a libedit based readline module, which
> +is the default on macOS.  This can be worked around by installing a
> +GNU readline based module instead, for example, using setuptools

Is there a way we could guess/detect the situation automatically (and
emit a corresponding message)?


        Stefan



       reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170301225511.25578.47307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20170301225512.1A71E262AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-03-02  2:20   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-03-02  3:57     ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 6e788ef: ; etc/PROBLEMS: Explain about the python+libedit problem (Bug#25753) Noam Postavsky
2017-03-02  5:39       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-03  2:22         ` Noam Postavsky

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