On 15-Feb-2005, Francesco Potorti` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >If you change the prompt for Octave, you'll need to modify the Emacs | >variable inferior-octave-prompt. | | I see. I should have realized that before... | | > The default definition is: | > | > (defcustom inferior-octave-prompt | > "\\(^octave\\(-[.0-9]+\\)?\\(:[0-9]+\\)?\\|^debug\\|^\\)>+ " | > "*Regexp to match prompts for the inferior Octave process." | > :type 'regexp | > :group 'octave-inferior) | | Hmm. Why not simply "^[^>]+>+ "?
That would probably be OK for most cases, though I'm sure some people reset the prompt to things that don't end with >. | >Or perhaps we should arrange for the prompt to be set when the | >Octave process is started by Emacs? | | Anyway, setting PS1 inside .octaverc is useless with run-octave, because | PS1 is then reset to "octave> ". Mh. inferior-octave-startup does it. | Why? I'd guess the goal was to ensure that we could match the prompt. But I'm no longer sure how all this is supposed to work. | > But that still would solve the | >problem of people changing the prompt during a session. I think I meant "would not solve" | In principle, the inferior octave mode could detect this and adjust | comint-prompt-regexp accordingly. How would you detect the change? | Or just ignore this problem (as it currently does). Certainly seems simpler. :-/ jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
