From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a suggested solution for better external' completion in certain emacs modes
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:51:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oei4a6qx.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86mzxolgta.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:18:41 +0100")
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
>
>> What rms is saying is that one could adapt the current Readline
>> communication channel to break out of the normal reading and switch
>> into the new mode. Maybe he's right. I'm not sure if it wouldn't be
>> more complicated to manage the state of the current line once commands
>> were being sent.
>
> For Emacs interaction, the normal mode might not be needed at all.
> WDYT?
That's right.
> The command-oriented mode could provide a special command to accept
> and process a line.
That's right. That was the idea.
But rms was suggesting that Readline already has all the functionality
for receiving lines (/8-) but a breakout might be useful to allow
Emacs to collect completions (and maybe history).
The trouble is how do you keep it all synchronized?
The user is entering a line in Emacs, with the text being sent to the
process so that Readline can see it in the normal way. So far she's
typed:
select * from
and now she presses C-TAB. Emacs has to ask Readline to do completion
of the current line and get the completions back. How does it do this?
Some quote thing could be sent, followed by a command. I guess what
Realine would have to do is:
- stop associating the input stream with the current line
- read the command
- execute the command
- respond with the output (delimitted in some way, maybe sexps?)
- go back to associating the input stream with the current line
So that might work.
But what quote to use?
--
Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1Bgmxo-0006Bh-0o@monty-python.gnu.org>
2004-07-05 12:06 ` ECB Eric M. Ludlam
2004-07-05 12:53 ` ECB Stefan
[not found] ` <E1BhoWE-0004n3-7k@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <200407061241.i66CfX1w016798@projectile.siege-engine.com>
2004-07-12 23:58 ` ECB Richard Stallman
2004-07-13 0:35 ` Re[2]: ECB Eric M. Ludlam
2004-08-06 23:10 ` transparent emacs Nic Ferrier
2004-08-07 0:12 ` Miles Bader
2004-08-07 1:15 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-08-07 2:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-08-17 17:44 ` Romain Francoise
2004-11-02 13:11 ` GTK emacs (and access to GTK) Nic Ferrier
2004-11-02 13:34 ` David Kastrup
2004-11-02 22:39 ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 22:53 ` David Kastrup
2004-11-02 23:17 ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 22:28 ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 22:41 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-02 22:48 ` Peter Heslin
2004-11-03 9:13 ` Jan D.
2004-11-03 9:34 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-08 23:30 ` a suggested solution for better external' completion in certain emacs modes Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 0:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-09 0:35 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 21:30 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-09 23:12 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-11 3:14 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-11 9:37 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-11 10:49 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-11 11:14 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-11 12:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-11 12:51 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2004-11-12 7:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-12 10:12 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-12 13:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-11-13 23:32 ` Stefan
2004-11-12 21:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-12 22:16 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-14 6:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-14 15:32 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-15 13:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-13 8:42 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-11-14 6:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-08 15:14 ` show-paren-mode stuffed in latest CVS Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 16:12 ` Sam Steingold
2004-11-10 16:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-10 16:22 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 16:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-11-09 16:30 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 16:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-09 21:35 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-10 0:16 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-11-09 17:20 ` Denis Bueno
2004-11-04 1:24 ` java and tag completion Nic Ferrier
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