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Need help interoperating between comint and CLI app's multi-line mode
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pareto optimal |
Subject: |
Need help interoperating between comint and CLI app's multi-line mode |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:21:30 +0100 (CET) |
Hello all, been stuck on this one for quite some hours :)
I'm trying to make an inferior comint based mode for memgpt.
In a terminal outside of emacs, when I use `memgpt run`, it has a special
multi-line mode you can enter with `//`.
It looks like:
```
> Enter your message: //
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
>
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara (I press Alt+enter)
💭 User wants to say hi, count to 10, and say sayonara. Handling the commands
one by one.
🤖 Hello! How are you doing today? I'm all ears. Oh, and one, two, three...
```
The problem is in emacs if you just do something like this to run it with
comint:
```
(progn
(make-comint "memgpt" "memgpt" nil "run" "--strip-ui")
(pop-to-buffer "*memgpt*"))
```
Then you go into multi-line mode, you'll get an error about `M-RET` not being
bound. That's surmountable since I can bind `M-RET` to something.
```
(process-send-string "*memgpt*" "\e\r") ;; send escape codes for ESC enter to
underlying process
```
The problem is that process-send-string sends at the beginning of the line.
I can prove that. Given comint buffer below and `|` denoting the cursor:
```
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara|
```
Send:
```
(process-send-string "*memgpt*" "****")
```
and you get:
```
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
**** - say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara
```
So when I send `(process-send-string "*memgpt*" "\e\r")` I predictably get this
result:
```
Empty input received. Try again!
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara
```
Well a little confusing since it puts the response above your input string.
Then I went to the docs and found `comint-accumulate`. This is a not too
horrible workaround and does work, but the output is a little noisy and strange
if you don't know exactly whats happening:
```
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara
>
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara
> Enter your message: (Finish with 'Alt+Enter' or 'Esc then Enter')
>
- say hi
- count to 10
- say sayonara
💭 INSERT silly wrong LLM output
```
Any guidance or advice would really help so I can have a comint memgpt that
isn't much more terrible to use than the normal version.
Thanks!
- Need help interoperating between comint and CLI app's multi-line mode,
pareto optimal <=