Re: [PATCH] Async evaluation in ob-shell

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

>  > The actual prompt is "org_babel_sh_prompt> ".
>
> Agreed.
>
>  > And we want to skip leading spaces in addition.
>  
> What do you mean by this?

I was following the pattern described in the docstring of
`comint-prompt-regexp', where it is suggested that prompts should follow
the pattern "^<regexp> *".

In the case of ob-shell.el, `org-babel-sh-prompt' is a string to be used
as a prompt and the corresponding regexp patter will be
"^<prompt string> *". Hence

  (concat "^" (regexp-quote org-babel-sh-prompt) " *")

>  > Adding " *" does not make the prompt match 2 spaces, but 1+.
>  
> Agreed.  
>
> It's not clear to me what pattern you're looking to match.

I hope the above clarified things.

>  > `md5' will be slightly faster compared to `org-id-uuid'. But it should
>  > not matter.
>  > 
>  > If we want use `org-id-uuid', lets move it to org-macs.el. Requiring the
>  > whole org-id.el must not be done. It has side effects of defining id:
>  > links.
>
> In the next revision (once we figure out the regex), I can create a separate commit moving `org-id-uuid' to org-macs.el and updating ob-R and ob-python from `md5' to `org-id-uuid' (assuming that's not an issue for the maintainers of those).  If you think speed is a concern, however, I can switch ob-shell.el to use plain `md5'.

I am in favour of using `org-id-uuid'. It might also be a useful generic
function for other purposes.

A slight concern is that some third-party code might depend on the
current pattern used for UUID string in ob-python. But we made no
promises here.

To be a bit safer, we can also refactor `org-uuidgen-p' exposing the
regexp used to match UUID. Also, it will make sense to move
`org-uuidgen-p' to org-macs.el.

>  > 
>  > >                          (concat "^" (regexp-quote org-babel-sh-prompt)
>  > > -                                " *"))
>  > > +                                "*"))
>  > 
>  > This is wrong. It unconditionally makes the last char in
>  > `org-babel-sh-prompt' 0+. (Imagine it is changed to non-space in
>  > future).
>
> When you say "imagine it is changed to non-space...", do you refer to `org-babel-sh-prompt'?

Yes.

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