From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: read user input in compilation buffer Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:16:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355944591 7251 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2012 19:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:16:31 +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 Dec 19 20:16:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP8I-0003J7-EV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:16:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP84-00023S-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP7y-00020h-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP7w-0000jN-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP7w-0000ig-8s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:16:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TlP87-0003CE-1N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:16:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-176-227.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.176.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:16:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-176-227.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:16:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-176-227.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:inNM4kfHyC12QK/K0b5c7ooW5Ag= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88227 Archived-At: > Now I understand that, there are some emacs-pry integrations out there, but > I want something simple, something that will simply let me type things in > the buffer when user input is required, in compile buffer. You can ask compile to run the process in a comint buffer. And you can also write a little function that lets you send text to the process. Such as: (defun my-send-string-to-process (string) (interactive (list (read-string "Input: "))) (process-send-string (get-buffer-process) (concat string "\n"))) If such user-input is only needed occasionally, it may be simpler to M-x my-send-string-to-process RET then to configure your compilation command to always use comint. Stefan