Re: a suggested solution for better external' completion in certain emacs modes

[Stefan]

> But how can you know when the shell is reading from the stream, or
> when it is the sub-subprogram that's reading?

Yup, that's a very difficult problem.

> If you go to the trouble of improving this, it would be better to
> have a control socket into readline which could ALSO inform comint
> whether the readline API is currently active or not, i.e. it would
> send messages like:

A separate socket is very limiting since it only works for the
"original" program.  If you run a program from within your original program,
it won't work any more.  E.g. it won't work for a shell run via ssh on
a remote host; it won't work for a shell run via `su' or `sudo'; ...


        Stefan