From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xemacs shell not flushing (on windows) when I get input from other programs (such as perl) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:28:02 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87ir778onx.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <1187722169.298073.263240@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <87zm0klnuy.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <1187801686.481578.321510@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187804567 13168 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2007 17:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 19:42:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INuE7-0000BN-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:42:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INuE7-0005je-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:42:43 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1187803740 5407 132.183.29.121 (22 Aug 2007 17:29:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:29:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xmYozMkISur/k6c9olpEZD18aJk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151180 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46753 Archived-At: 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." -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109