From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prompt display in Panther build Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:28:23 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <9BE99562-0AF4-11D8-ABC5-0003939515A2@tty1.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067604697 21441 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 12:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 13:51:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFYkZ-0000je-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFYkY-0007vD-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFYab-0001q1-Mu for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:41:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFYZV-0001ol-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFYYs-0001fr-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.187] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFYPA-0008UO-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3F8A95B90022F5A1; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:29:26 +0100 Original-To: Matt Tenenbaum In-Reply-To: <9BE99562-0AF4-11D8-ABC5-0003939515A2@tty1.org> (Matt Tenenbaum's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:17:51 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17632 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17632 Hi Matt, Matt Tenenbaum writes: > [Mac] OS X 10.3 [...] > > When I run 'sql-postgres' to start the interactive SQL mode (to > connect to a local pgsql server) the behavior differs between the > command line invocation and the Carbon build. In particular, on the > command line, everything is (or seems) as it is supposed to be; on > the Carbon build, there is no prompt. If I enter commands (despite > the lack of prompt) everything behaves normally (it transforms the > text to boldface and writes the query results, as usual), but I > still don't get any prompt showing up. There are (or at least there used to be) problems with pseudo-ttys (ptys) on Mac OS X, therefore ptys are disabled for some (all?) operations. I think the variable process-connection-type controls this, so you could try to tweak that. benny