From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <20170301225511.25578.47307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170301225512.1A71E262AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488421251 15789 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2017 02:20:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 02:20:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: "=?windows-1252?Q?Fabi=E1n?= E. Gallina" , Noam Postavsky To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 03:20:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjGMG-0003Gx-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:20:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjGMM-0008IB-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjGLn-0008Hr-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjGLj-0005zf-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:13315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjGLj-0005yA-PD; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:20:11 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BWCQD7f7dY/zPujBheGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1BhgQmDD4tJkQMZAZJ8hBwaEIVyBAICgjhEFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohHEGViMQCzQHCxQYDYowDrN4ixYBAQEHAQEBAR8FizuDF4IJhRkFkFSLVIZ1jSCIW4ZgE5MiNiGBASEUCCyFQ4FmIjUBiXEBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0BWCQD7f7dY/zPujBheGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1BhgQmDD4tJkQMZAZJ8hBwaEIVyBAICgjhEFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohHEGViMQCzQHCxQYDYowDrN4ixYBAQEHAQEBAR8FizuDF4IJhRkFkFSLVIZ1jSCIW4ZgE5MiNiGBASEUCCyFQ4FmIjUBiXEBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,228,1484024400"; d="scan'208";a="294230304" Original-Received: from 24-140-238-51.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([24.140.238.51]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 01 Mar 2017 21:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 65C4FAE13F; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:20:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20170301225512.1A71E262AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:55:11 -0500 (EST)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212686 Archived-At: > +*** In Inferior Python mode, input is echoed and native completion doesn't work. > + > + > +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