Re: xemacs shell not flushing (on windows) when I get input from other programs (such as perl)

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

sandra_oconnor2@yahoo.com writes:

> Joel, I mean Xemacs, aka Lucid Emacs.  I've tried getting help on
> comp.emacs.xemacs but haven't been successful.  That group gets less
> traffic than this one.

That should probably tell you something ;)  Perhaps you should switch
to GNU Emacs; I know there's more involved than just wanting to do
it.  Support for GNU Emacs (as you're experiencing) is all-around
better and Emacs lisp packages are generally designed for Emacs unless
otherwise specified; in my experience most of the packages for XEmacs
were quite out of date.

>>> What is it exactly that you want to see happening?
>

[...]

>
> Any ideas anyone.

I have a few ideas:
Perhaps the Windows implementations of these debuggers and
interpreters doesn't cooperate well with Emacs.  I came to expect this
when I was using Emacs and there are good design rationale differences
(Windows is *not* Unix).

My other idea is that what you want is a customized comint[1] mode (a
major mode) for these debuggers and interpreters; also, if available
try M-x ansi-term, in which you can run any interactive environment.

Does anyone know of a Python or Perl Debugger mode?  If nobody does,
you could be the one to write it.

Joel

Footnotes: 
[1] Co-mint mode is like Double-mint, except with sage and wintergreen
instead of mint.  Actually it stands for "command interpreter."

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