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From: pierson@xenna (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Prolog interface & comint
Keywords: comint.el
Message-ID: <9705@multimax.Encore.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 89 15:07:43 GMT
References: <5901@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In-reply-to: shivers@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Olin Shivers)

In article <5901@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, shivers@a.gp (Olin Shivers) writes:
>For those requesting a Prolog interface for Emacs, I might suggest building a
>derived mode on top of my general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package,
>comint mode.

I'd like to endorse this.  The number of extended shell modes and
inferior-foo modes floating around the net is a pretty convincing
existence proof that the standard shell mode is inadequate.  Since
comint is the most complete and polished replacement I've seen, it
should be a leading candidate for the new base.  Then all of our other
modes can simply and fluidly coexist (and new mode writers won't have
to continually reinvent command history, etc.).

Now if Olin could just be convinced to fix the bug in the default
behaviour of ^M :-)
-- 
                                            dan

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