Re: Using readline with Emacs shell or eshell or ???

[Stefan Monnier]

> For an example that works (but might not be the best implementation)
> take a look at the inferior-octave-complete function in the Emacs mode
> for running Octave inside Emacs (octave-inf.el).  The Emacs function
> for completion sends a command to Octave to generate completions and
> then displays them.  It uses comint for some of the ugly stuff, so the

I haven't looked at how octave-inf.el does it, but gud.el does it
as well when interacting with gdb, so you can also look at that
one.  If you look at both and get some insight, I'd like to
hear about it.


        Stefan