Re: Character mode for comint?

[Antoine Levitt]

29/10/11 18:36, Stefan Monnier
>> Is there any way to get a kind of shell-like "character-mode" for comint
>> buffers? Ie something that'd pass litteral keypresses to the underlying
>> app. Specifically, I'm interested in running ipython, which basically
>> uses readline. That'd allow me to use tab, C-r, that kind of stuff.
>
> I think you're asking for a better integration between term-mode and
> comint-mode.  Agreed.  Please M-x report-emacs-bug requesting this as
> a new feature.

I think the whole shell situation on emacs is a can of worms. There's
term, ansi-term, nterm, multi-term, shell, comint, each with specific
caveats and gotchas. I've reported this as you asked, but I'm not very
hopeful that someone will take it on :)